Emma and Nathan couldn’t be more different. But when they meet in a hospital waiting room, to the sound of a ticking clock and surrounded by faded magazines, they are both terrified, nervous and alone. And they have one fatal thing in common…
Emma lives a quiet life. She looks after her disabled mother. She lives vicariously through the well-thumbed pages and cracked spines of her beloved books.
Nathan spends his days fifteen thousand feet above the ground, soaring through the air, stomach somersaulting, as a sky diving instructor. After a lifetime of having a recurring dream that he would die at twenty-seven, he treats every day like it’s his last.
As fate throws Emma and Nathan together, everything is about to change.
Emma has never been kissed, or tasted champagne, or travelled abroad. Nathan has never fallen in love, worn odd socks, or grown a sunflower from a seed.
Emma and Nathan vow never to waste an hour, knowing that goodbye could come all too soon. But as they lose their hearts to one another against all the odds, have they found each other too late?
An utterly heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting novel about the redemptive power of love and how the end isn’t the end at all... Fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain will lose their hearts to Catherine Miller’s stunning story.
Title: 99 Days With You
Author: Catherine Miller
Published By: Bookouture
Publication Date: 19th June 2019
Our Review
What a wonderful and heartbreaking love story.
Emma meets Nathan in a hospital waiting room, both are alone for one reason or another and decide to help one another out by accompanying each other to their appointments.
I thought this was such a unique concept for a book. It was very authentic and worked really well. Emma's story was especially sad as she was a carer for her mother who was suffering from a lime limiting illness. So her emotions included guilt at possibly not being there for her mum.
What follows from their initial meeting is simply beautiful, their journeys through diagnosis and treatment are devastating. Yet each of them are able to learn so much from each other and provide one another with support and strength.
I really couldn’t put this book down as Emma and Nathan truly embedded themselves deep in my heart. Part of me wanted to shout and scream, ‘Why is life so unfair?’
Catherine Miller has not shied away from exposing true heartbreak, the reality of this sort of illness happens to people every single day and this feels like a tribute to all those who’ve lost their lives and everyone fighting cancer.
Despite the absolute pure heartbreak there is such an uplifting feel to the story and a strong message to live every hour as if it’s your last. However, I can assure you that you’ll need lots of tissues.
Sincerely
Book Angels x
About the author
When Catherine Miller became a mum to twins, she decided her hands weren't full enough so wrote a novel with every spare moment she managed to find. By the time the twins were two, Catherine had a two-book deal with Carina UK. There is a possibility she has aged remarkably in that time. Her debut novel, Waiting For You, came out in March 2016.
Catherine was a NHS physiotherapist, but for health reasons (Uveitis and Sarcoidosis) she retired early from this career. As she loved her physiotherapy job, she decided if she couldn't do that she would pursue her writing dream. It took a few years and a couple of babies, but in 2015 she won the Katie Fforde bursary, was a finalist in the London Book Fair Write Stuff Competition and highly commended in Woman magazine's writing competition. Soon afterwards she signed with Carina. Soon after that, she collapsed in a heap and was eventually revived by chocolate.
Since then she's had four novels published and hasn't found a week that didn't require revival by chocolate. She is one eighth of The Romaniacs - a group of writing friends who've supported each other since meeting through The Romantic Novelists' Association's New Writers' Scheme.
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