Expiration Dates (Hardcover)

'Rebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms' - GABRIELLE ZEVIN, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Being single is like playing the lottery. There's always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all. . . From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation. Daphne believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it - the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she'd spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there's only a name: Jake. But as Jake and Daphne's story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper's prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn't, information that - if he found out - would break his heart. Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, 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 them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for. *~* Praise for Rebecca Serle ~*~ 'I loved In Five Years but with One Italian Summer Rebecca has truly excelled herself. An extraordinary, beautiful, magical book' JILL MANSELL, author of Promise Me 'Startlingly fresh and utterly compelling, One Italian Summer is a spellbinding story of love, loss and hope. . . It's extraordinary storytelling - a book with magic on every page' - HOLLY MILLER, author of What Might Have Been 'Breathtakingly original and heartbreakingly emotional. . . I was floored by it' - LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, author of Love Struck 'One Italian Summer is the perfect escapist read. Compelling, moving and masterfully told' - LAURA KAY, author of Wild Things 'A gorgeous story that swept me away to Italy - breathtaking! - EMMA COOPER, author of It Was Always You 'Gorgeous and I am SO HERE for women's fiction that surprises - which this did in spades. Loved it and would read anything she ever writes - CESCA MAJOR, author of Maybe Next Time 'Rebecca Serle has crafted a beautiful love story which shows her character's grief slowly ebbing away and being replaced by something new' - IPAPER 'Wonderful on grief and love, and every reader lucky enough to still have their mother will want to hug her tight after this' - DAILY MAIL 'This haunting, touching tale is sure to get under your skin' - SUNDAY EXPRESS