Sabrina is on the cusp of turning thirty, and her thoughts turn to a list she made years earlier: the five people she could invite to a dinner party if she could: her father, best friend, Audrey Hepburn, a former professor and the man she almost married. The Dinner List is a surreal novel, where each chapter of a distant yet recent past is sandwiched between a dream-world dinner. As the appetisers are served, wine poured, and dinner table conversation begins, it becomes clear that there’s a reason these six people have been gathered together.ĭelicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter, The Dinner List is a romance for our times. When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her past, and well, Audrey Hepburn. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? These are the questions Rebecca Serle contends with in her utterly captivating novel, The Dinner List, a story imbued with the same delightful magical realism as One Day, and the life-changing romance of Me Before You. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed.Īt one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. ‘We’ve been waiting for an hour.’ That’s what Audrey says. Synopsis: If you could invite anyone at all to a fantasy dinner party, who would be on your list?

Omitting You by T. Ashleigh