Five Feet Apart

Seventeen-year-old Stella Grant likes to be in control — of her routines, her medications, and her life with cystic fibrosis. Will Newman likes to be anything but, treating his own CF and its treatments with careless defiance. When they meet on the same hospital ward, the attraction is immediate, but so is the danger: patients with CF must stay six feet apart at all times to avoid cross-infection that could be fatal.

As Stella and Will fall for each other, they refuse to let their illness dictate everything. In a small, quietly rebellious act of defiance, they decide to steal back one foot of the space between them — to live five feet apart instead of six. But the closer they grow, the higher the stakes become, and the more they must weigh love against survival.

Rachael Lippincott's Five Feet Apart is a tender, tear-jerking young adult romance about first love, chronic illness, and the ache of wanting to be close to someone you cannot touch.