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Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle is the bestselling novelist behind In Five Years, One Italian Summer, Expiration Dates, and her new book Once and Again, emotionally precise stories that bend reality just enough to ask what we would do if we knew how things ended. In Five Years, with its single devastating flash-forward, became a word-of-mouth phenomenon and a fixture on the bestseller lists. Before her adult novels she wrote young-adult fiction and co-created the TV adaptation of her book Famous in Love.

Circuit updated July 13, 2026

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“she told me a prophecy about like who my future husband would be and like what his name was and like how I would meet him and when.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
“In Five Years was inspired almost entirely from this this medium reading who gave me a psychic prophecy about my love life.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
“I am working on five film adaptations of these books. So, and I'm producing all of them.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton
“even if we can see what's coming, we can't see what it will mean.”
Rebecca Serle · Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton

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Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton·Culture

Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic who predicted her future husband’s name and timing

The novelist’s fate-obsessed bestseller has a very on-brand origin story, though it works better as literary fuel than as evidence for the supernatural.

Jul 13, 2026