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Title: Five Years From Now
Author: Paige Toon
Format reviewed: Paperback
Source: Goody bag
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Rating: 5 Stars
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What if you met the right person at the wrong time?
Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love, but soon they are forced worlds apart.
Five years later, they find each other. Their bond is rekindled and new feelings take hold, but once again they must separate.
For the next two decades, fate brings Nell and Van together every five years, as life and circumstance continue to divide them. Will they ever find true happiness? And will it be together?
‘One day, maybe five years from now, you’ll look back and understand why this happened…’
Nell and Van meet as children when their parents fall in love, but soon they are forced worlds apart.
Five years later, they find each other. Their bond is rekindled and new feelings take hold, but once again they must separate.
For the next two decades, fate brings Nell and Van together every five years, as life and circumstance continue to divide them. Will they ever find true happiness? And will it be together?
‘One day, maybe five years from now, you’ll look back and understand why this happened…’
What a beautiful story, so easy to read, and it tugged on the heart strings, but at the same time I suspect will have me later think back over my own life in 5 year chunks to see how things have changed, or what may have been the effect of something else.
This is the story of Nell and Van, and how their lives intersect at 5 yearly intervals. We meet them aged five when Nell's dad is living with Van's mum. In a rollercoaster of emotion and life changing moments you are drawn into their lives and over the few hours it took for me to devour this this book , I feel as though I have grown up alongside them.
I loved getting to know both Nell and Van, along with their friends and the other locals in Cornwall that they grew up with. There are plenty of unexpected turns in this book which just added to the one more page syndrome that I had while reading this.
Read the book in two sittings, the majority of it sitting out in the garden, refusing to move or do more work until well I ran out of pages. I was hooked on this story, although if you are a slower reader, the book is split into 5 year snapshots, so you could read a chapter and come back to the next knowing that the characters have grown a bit older in your absence.
I totally love Paige Toon's books and her writing is as wonderful as ever before I have always found her books to be exceptionally quick to read and this was no exception, it was a fabulous book to read on a hot spring day, while mentally being in Cornwall with Nell and Van.
This is the story of Nell and Van, and how their lives intersect at 5 yearly intervals. We meet them aged five when Nell's dad is living with Van's mum. In a rollercoaster of emotion and life changing moments you are drawn into their lives and over the few hours it took for me to devour this this book , I feel as though I have grown up alongside them.
I loved getting to know both Nell and Van, along with their friends and the other locals in Cornwall that they grew up with. There are plenty of unexpected turns in this book which just added to the one more page syndrome that I had while reading this.
Read the book in two sittings, the majority of it sitting out in the garden, refusing to move or do more work until well I ran out of pages. I was hooked on this story, although if you are a slower reader, the book is split into 5 year snapshots, so you could read a chapter and come back to the next knowing that the characters have grown a bit older in your absence.
I totally love Paige Toon's books and her writing is as wonderful as ever before I have always found her books to be exceptionally quick to read and this was no exception, it was a fabulous book to read on a hot spring day, while mentally being in Cornwall with Nell and Van.
What a beautiful review Rachel. That will be a book I will read this month. Thanks for sharing.
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