GR: Your main character, Dannie, has her entire future meticulously planned out when a dream makes her question the path she's on. For In Five Years I thought: What if you saw your future? How would that change the way you live your life now? Where do you see yourself in five years? I’m also fascinated by the idea that perhaps our present doesn’t determine our future, but our present is being brought forth by a future that has already transpired. The questions for both The Dinner Listand In Five Years came directly with the conceit. My first novel was a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, so this has always been true of my work! Rebecca Serle: I think, as a rule, I’m very interested in finding a unique way into a very common idea or story that is sort of ubiquitous to our culture.

What gave you the initial idea for this book? Goodreads: In Five Years has such a striking premise! Like your previous book, The Dinner List, which imagines a party where the question 'What five people, living or dead, would you invite to dinner?' comes to life, In Five Years takes seriously and literally a question ('Where do you see yourself in five years?') people often ask as an icebreaker. Rebecca Serle talked with Goodreads about writing an unconventional romance, celebrating female friendships, and always leaving her books a little open-ended. She only spends an hour in that version of her life before being whisked back to the present, but that one hour changes, or possibly determines, the course of her life. In a different apartment, next to a different man, with a different ring on her finger. The novel opens with the protagonist Dannie falling asleep on the evening her boyfriend proposes to her.and waking up five years later. Serle is now back with In Five Years, one of this year's most anticipated romantic reads. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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