One moment can change everything — but it doesn’t have to end the story.

In If You Have Five Minutes to Spare, Dominic Hurley BEM shares an honest, often funny, and deeply human memoir of life after a traumatic brain injury. After a life-altering accident at just twenty-one, Dominic was forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about normality, disability, memory, and identity.

This is not a polished tale of instant triumph. It’s a real story of recovery — told with humor, frustration, warmth, and unfiltered truth. From memory loss and physical rehabilitation to navigating relationships, work, family, and self-belief, this memoir captures what it truly means to live with a brain injury in a world that prefers neat labels.

Through sharp observation and self-deprecating wit, Dominic challenges the idea of what it means to be “disabled,” questions society’s obsession with normality, and shows how meaning can still be found after life takes an unexpected turn.

This book is for anyone who has survived trauma, lived with disability, supported someone with a brain injury, or simply wondered how resilience is built — one ordinary day at a time.

If you have five minutes to spare, open this book. You might find far more than you expected.