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Five Feet Apart

Rachael Lippincott

  • 288 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2018
  • 11 editions
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1 About this book

Two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life.

At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital.

He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die.

  • Romance
  • Death, Grief, Bereavement
  • Children's fiction
  • Love
  • Diseases
  • Relationships
  • Adolescence
  • Drugs

2 What to expect

A young adult romance set in a hospital: two seventeen-year-olds with cystic fibrosis fall in love, though the risk of passing an infection to each other means they must always stay several feet apart. It moves between careful, rule-following Stella and reckless Will, and deals plainly with chronic illness, the hope of a transplant and the nearness of death. It is quick, emotional and sad.

3 About Rachael Lippincott

Born 1994

Rachael Lippincott (born December 5, 1994) is an American novelist. She is a New York Times bestselling author. She is best known for writing the book adaptation of Five Feet Apart, published on November 20, 2018, which became a major motion picture directed by Justin Baldoni.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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