Would you like to read a novel that makes you question your destiny, your love and your friendship? If so, I recommend Rebecca Serle's In Five Years: A Novel, a New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America book club selection.

In Five Years: A Novel is a love story that subverts the genre by focusing on the platonic love between its protagonist and her best friend. The novel has been praised for its witty twist, its focus on the love between two lifelong friends, and its insightful discussion of loss.

The novel chronicles the life of Dannie Kohan, a corporate lawyer with a boyfriend, a brilliant best friend, and a job she loves. After the death of her brother in a car accident when she was 12, Dannie developed a need for control, discipline, and preparation. She lives her life according to a set of guidelines that she believes guide a person to the right kind of life. The night of her engagement, she experiences a brief period of time that will occur exactly five years in the future; in it, her life is completely unrecognizable, from the apartment she lives in to the man she is with. The intensity of the feeling she experiences with this man unsettles her, and she pushes him out of her mind. Her impact is evident, however, in her repeated delays in planning and holding a wedding.

When the same man appears in her life four and a half years later, she is confronted with the truth of the future she saw. There's a new complication, however: The man is the new boyfriend of her best friend, Aaron Gregory. Desperate to avoid the future she saw, Dannie reacts rashly: she disapproves of Aaron at first, discourages her best friend, Bella, from buying the apartment she saw in her premonition, and rushes to set a date for the wedding she's been putting off. for more than four years.

Most of the novel's action occurs in the last six months of the five years to which the title refers, as Dannie grapples with the potential for a future she didn't plan for and seeks to avoid.

In Five Years: A Novel is a moving and exciting novel that will make you reflect on the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictability of fate.