Tishylou's World

Welcome to my Review of Five Years From Now by Paige Toon What They Say: ‘One day, maybe five years from now, you’ll look back and understand why this happened…’   Vian  and Nell  are thrown together at the age of five when Vian's mother and Nell's father fall in love. At first archenemies, the two children soon become the best of friends. But five years later, tragedy rips them apart, and 10-year-old Vian is sent to Australia to live with his real father. Fast-forward five more years and Nell is still angry at her dad for not trying harder to keep Vian with them. When her father finances a Christmas trip for Evan to visit, Nell  soon discovers that the boy she once knew is now a wholly different creature. Vian  is now ‘Van’ – a wild and carefree teenager who surfs with dolphins and dives with sharks. Chemistry crackles between them, but once again, they’re separated. For the next two decades, Nell and Van cross paths every five years, but fate and ci...