![]() ![]() This review has been updated to remove a spoiler. Serle’s whimsical tale is book club catnip. While the plot hinges on well-worn tropes, the deadpan prose highlights the author’s keen sense of irony. She senses a mutual recognition, and, after Bella receives devastating news, Dannie and Aaron grow closer. On a rainy day in June 2025, she meets up with Bella, now a successful art dealer, and is stunned to find her accompanied by Aaron, the man from her dream. It is categorized as a love story but subverts the premise by focusing on platonic love between its heroine and her best friend. ![]() ![]() It was also chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club pick. It was published in March 2020 and became a New York Times bestseller. Upon waking, Dannie begins to second-guess her regimented course, and as the years pass, she puts off the marriage. In Five Years is a novel by Rebecca Serle. In her dream, it’s the year 2025 and she lives with a man named Aaron Gregory. After accepting the proposal, Dannie slips into a deep sleep and dreams of an alternate future, where everything is off-kilter. Dannie expects to get married by the time she’s 30 right on track, David proposes, giving Dannie a ring picked out by her best friend Bella. At 28, Dannie Kohan lives happily with her boyfriend, David, in a Manhattan apartment and is poised to land her dream job as a lawyer at a top firm. Serle’s bewitching story of love and friendship (after The Dinner List) centers on a young woman who plans her life down to the minute until fate gets in the way. ![]()
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