In Five Years — A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel) book cover by Rebecca Serle

In Five Years

Adult • Family Life
A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Dannie dreams of a different future Best friend Bella embodies spontaneity Transformation during a single hour Unexpected love complicates plans Future self presents surreal choices

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man.

Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.

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Book details

Publisher
Atria Books
Publication date
March 2, 2021
Print length
288 pages
Language
English
ISBN
9781982137458

Family Life

Reader guide

What to Know Before Reading In Five Years

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle is a striking, contemporary love story that challenges the conventional ideas of fate, planning, and romance. The narrative follows Dannie Kohan, a meticulous corporate lawyer in Manhattan who lives her life by a strict five-year plan.

On the very night she nails her dream job interview and gets engaged to her perfectly matched boyfriend, she falls asleep and wakes up exactly five years in the future—in a completely different apartment, next to a completely different man, with a different ring on her finger.ng vision

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Story profile

G-NRIS™ identifies In Five Years primarily as Literary Fiction, Romance, and Contemporary Fiction. Its strongest themes include Love and Relationships, Fate and Destiny, and Self-Discovery. Prominent narrative patterns include Vision of the Future, Best Friends to Lovers, and Love Triangle.

Reader connection

Readers connected to this book most often reflect Psychological Moral Explorer reader archetypes. Their strongest shared genre interests include Historical Fiction, Thriller, Self-Help, and Literary Fiction. They are commonly drawn to themes such as gaming, technology, Seeking Dark Psychological Tension, and Exploring The Fractured Self.

About the author

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle is the New York Times bestselling author of Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and the young adult novels The Edge of Falling and When You Were Mine. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in Love, based on her YA series of the same name. She is a graduate of USC and The New School and lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

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