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Today is my stop on the blog tour for The Night We Met – please do check out the other stops on the tour. Thanks go to the publishers and the author for allowing me to be part of this tour.
I’ve previously read other books by Zoe Folbigg so was intrigued to see what I could expect from this one. Plus she’s a local author to me so yay!
About The Book
As a man holds his wife’s frail hand, he recounts a journey like no other…
Daniel and Olivia are destined to be together. At least, Daniel thinks this the night he sees Olivia across a sea of people. As he backpacks through Australia, Daniel and Liv continue to cross paths, yet never speak. Until one night, Liv joins Daniel for a drink. And that night everything changes.
Back in London, stuck in a monotonous routine, Daniel finds himself daydreaming of the woman with green eyes and fiery hair. Armed with only a name he vows to find her, yet with every passing moment, Daniel’s hopes begin to disappear. What if it wasn’t meant to be?
But then fate steps in, and Daniel and Olivia’s story can truly begin…
This is a tale of serendipity, missed chances and the power of love.
My Review
This is one gut punch of a book. Daniel and Olivia are both travelling the world – and yet they keep seeing each other in different places. It always seems to be a case of they’re meant to meet each other but wrong place, wrong time. Just when you think they’re finally going to get together – fate steps in to lend a hand and yet again they spend time apart.
But eventually they do end up together and their story is beautiful, even though it is tinged with a little sadness. From Olivia’s struggle to deal with the death of her father before the book begins and right up to the very last page, you are left hanging on, wanting to see how their story pans out. You know what could happen, what is most likely to happen, but you keep wishing that you’ve got it wrong and fate will step in once more and lend its helping hand.
Daniel promises Olivia he will write down their love story and believe me, it is a joy to read. This book kept me gripped until the last page.
5 stars from me.
About The Author
Zoë Folbigg is author of Amazon number-one bestseller The Note, based on the true story of how she met her husband on her daily commute. Her second novel, The Distance, was released in 2018 and The Postcard – the sequel to The Note – was released summer 2019. Formerly a magazine journalist and digital editor, Zoë started at Cosmopolitan in 2001, was chief sub editor of its teen sister CosmoGIRL! and has since freelanced for titles including Fabulous, Glamour, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, i newspaper, Healthy, Top Santé, Mother & Baby, ELLE, Sunday Times Style, ASOS and Style.com. Zoë wrote a weekly column in Fabulous magazine documenting her year-long round-the-world trip with ‘Train Man’ – and now lives with him and their two sons in Hertfordshire.
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Oh it sounds really good, I’m going to add it to my Good Reads list now. Thanks.
I think I’d enjoy this book as I am really into travelling myself. It sounds like a real cliff-hanger read!
This sounds like exactly the kind of book I love, even though you generally know the couple will get together in the end, it doesn’t stop the fun and emotion of the journey x
Sounds like an incredible book and I know spoilers, do they get happy ever after or fate intervenes and not in a nice way?
This sounds like a good book, one of those light stories that makes reading fun.