Summary

The next chapter is titled “Day Minus Two, 08:30.” Jen does not check her phone in the hope that time is passing normally again. When she finally does check, she finds it is October 27, “the day before the day before” (39). Jen throws up again in a fit of panic. She decides to go to work in the hope of finding help from “her oldest friend and colleague.” Jen and Rakesh Kapoor have a law office in downtown Liverpool. Rakesh was a doctor who became a lawyer. He hates being a lawyer now, but cannot bring himself to quit another career. She talks to him as her friend and a doctor. He does not immediately dismiss her fears, but puts it down to stress. He says there could be other causes, such as a tumor, injury, or epilepsy. Rakesh asks questions to actually understand what...