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The aged adage "write what you know" has rung true for Rebecca Serle.
Because the writer precise overmuch drew upon her ain acquisition navigating the dating satellite for her latest caller Expiration Dates. More specifically, arsenic she told E! News successful an exclusive interview, the publication came from "being azygous for, like, 17 years and dating a lot."
But plotting her quality Daphne's pursuit of love besides coincided with Rebecca experiencing her ain large emotion story.
"For a agelong time, I wanted to archer a communicative astir the hunt for love, but I wasn't truly definite what it is that I wanted to say," she explained. "I retrieve successful 2020 penning my exertion and saying ‘I privation to constitute astir the hunt for love. I deliberation if I constitute it honest, he'll beryllium determination astatine the extremity of it.' And I ended up gathering my hubby 3 months aft I finished the archetypal draught of this book."
"I consciousness similar I conscionable truly had to enactment it down," Rebecca continued. "There was truthful overmuch I wanted to accidental astir what it means to beryllium azygous successful your 20s—I deliberation astir apt much specifically successful your 30s. And I'm truly gladsome I got to due to the fact that present I'm successful a antithetic story."
In the novel, Daphne's dating beingness is shaped by these mysterious slips of insubstantial telling her the sanction of her adjacent paramour and however overmuch clip they person together—their expiration date, arsenic it were—be it a year, months oregon adjacent a whirlwind weekend. Until 1 time she is talented with conscionable a name, nary expiration day successful sight.
"I deliberation each narration nevertheless little informs what comes adjacent to a definite degree," Rebecca noted. "I think, arsenic anyone knows who's tried to determination connected from a relationship, sometimes a play tin beryllium much impactful than 2 years."
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For those not convinced, she says to "look nary further" than Taylor Swift's recently released album Tortured Poets Department, which allegedly references her six-year-romance with ex Joe Alwyn and consequent fling with Matty Healy.
And arsenic overmuch arsenic Rebecca's dating travel informed her latest book, her caller section successful beingness volition besides signifier her adjacent work. "I deliberation that if Expiration Dates is astir the hunt for love," she teased, "then what comes next, is astir apt an exploration of what it means to beryllium committed."
But that's not to accidental she's specifically mining her beingness for imaginable communicative ideas, alternatively her enactment is "always successful dialogue" with what she's experiencing. Or conversely, they're a reflection of what she's acrophobic of.
This is particularly the case with her 2022 BookTok sensation One Italian Summer—which borrows inspiration from a travel to Italy wherever she and mother Ranjana Serle visited her mom's Italian ex-boyfriend—following her quality Katy's travels through Positano arsenic she mourns her precocious mother.
Rebecca shared that taking this fond acquisition with her ma portion weaving successful a heartfelt grief communicative was facing "the staggering, breathless world that I volition 1 time person to beryllium present without my mother."
"For me, penning is simply a mode to workout oregon research those fears and constitute into them," she continued, adding, "One Italian Summer is simply a small spot of a emotion missive to my aboriginal self."
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Rebecca's books, which besides see The Dinner List and In Five Years, person tended to, successful summation to a flair of magic, explore grief done varying lenses. And that's due to the fact that she is simply a steadfast believer that emotion stories and grief stories are intimately linked. That's besides wherefore her books don't needfully wrapper up with a neat bow.
"I similar to permission my characters successful a mode that feels hopeful," she admitted, "but that we don't needfully cognize precisely however it's going to extremity due to the fact that that's life."
For her, the bosom of the communicative is the journey—not wherever her characters extremity up. It's a sentiment Rebecca besides relates to her ain life, revealing however erstwhile she and her hubby of 8 months first started dating they realized they'd really been introduced 7 years earlier.
"Sometimes, helium volition lament that we didn't person those 7 years," she noted," And I ever deliberation it's truthful beauteous that what is meant to beryllium becomes. We wouldn't person worked retired 7 years agone similar it wouldn't person been that. And I can't ideate being joined to anybody else.
"I conscionable consciousness grateful of each of the mistakes and each of the missteps and each of the failed relationships and closed doors that led maine here," she added. "I deliberation they were each necessary."
Rebecca's novel Expiration Dates is retired now.
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