That’s the walk to work in minutes from our Murray Hill apartment to East Forty-Seventh Street, where the law offices of Sutter, Boyt and Barn are located. If I wash my hair, it’s forty-three.Įighteen. That’s how many minutes it takes me to brush my teeth, shower, and put on face toner, serum, cream, makeup, and a suit for work.

It’s a meditative calming technique that helps your brain with memory, focus, and attention, but the real reason I do it is because that’s how long it takes my boyfriend, David, to get out of bed next to me and flip the coffee maker on, and for me to smell the beans. That’s the number I count to every morning before I even open my eyes. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting. 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. 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.īut when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend-the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. 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.ĭannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. “ In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” -Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick

Rebecca serle in five years