From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer, a love story that will define a generation.
Being single is like playing the lottery. There is always a chance that with just one piece of paper you can win it all.
Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she met a new man, she would receive a piece of paper with a name and a number on it, indicating exactly how long they had been together.The press told her she would spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend who became her best friend. Daphne had been receiving numbered sheets of paper for over twenty years, always wondering if there would ever be a sheet of paper without an expiration date. Finally, on the night of the blind date at his favorite restaurant in Los Angeles, there was only one name: Jake.
But as Jake and Daphne's story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the newspaper's prediction and wondering what it means to be both committed and honest. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn't, information that if discovered would break his heart.Told with characteristic warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle finally sets her sights on romance. The result is a gripping, moving, passionate and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love and ultimately how we define each of these things for ourselves. self. The expiration date is what fans have been waiting for.
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