Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day-a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.
But when she wakes up, she's suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It's the same night-December 15-but 2025, five years in the future.
After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can't shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn't the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.
That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.
Brimming with joy and heartbreak, In Five Years is an unforgettable love story that reminds us of the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny.
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[Twenty-five. That's the number I count to every morning before I open my eyes]***
(@AtriaBooks, 10 March 2020, 253 pages, paperback, #ARC from @AmazonUK #AmazonVine)
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The book's tag line 'not the love story you expected' fits this delightful little book perfectly. I can honestly say this is not what I expected at all. I was intrigued by the opening, when Dannie wakes up five years in the future in a very different life and then wakes up back in her own time. I was curious to see where the author went with the story. The author took me somewhere I wasn't expecting at all. This is a story about the love between two best friends, a different kind of soul mate, two people who have been inseparable since the moment they met. There is a lot of heartache in this book and a lot of love as well. The book also explores the idea of destiny and fate and how nothing is set in stone and only the choices we consciously make matter. This is a lovely book. I treasured every word.