The characterizations are thinly fleshed out, but readers interested in The Fault in Our Stars–style tales may root for them and their budding romance. Adapted from a screenplay, the novel uses alternating points of view to capture the teens’ desires to explore and seek freedom. She chastises him for not following his care plan he trivializes her vigilant focus (“So is your plan to die really, really smart so you can join the debate team of the dead?”). cepacia, which knocked him off the lung transplant list and also means that he must stay several feet away from Stella or risk her health, even when they start falling for each other. Eight months earlier, he was diagnosed with B. Her to-do list is a mile long, but she’s truly thrown off course when she meets artist Will Newman, another CF patient in a new drug trial at the hospital where they are both staying. It feels like punishment.High school senior Stella Grant has cystic fibrosis and is tired of living a life in which “CF gets the final say.” Stella is strong and goal-oriented-she manages her medications with an app she designed and uses YouTube Live to educate others about CF. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. 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. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial.
The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital.
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. 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. In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, 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.Ĭan you love someone you can never touch? She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. The movie stayed true to the majority of the book, but had a few discrepancies. Rachael Lippincott is the coauthor of All This Time, 1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart, and She Gets the Girl and the author of The Lucky List and Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh. The book was published on Novembefore it was turned into a motion picture. Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 The film Five Feet Apart is based on a novel written by Rachel Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis. Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson!
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