This was a sweet, vulnerable, and emotional women's fiction novel. Set in England, we start in the present when 43-year-old Olivia is in the hospital, on hospice, where she has cancer. While she knows she's dying, her husband Daniel refuses to give up hope and isn't ready to lose his wife. Time's running out for his fashion designer wife and the journalist has been frantically working to find a solution that'll save her. Knowing she doesn't have much time left, she asks him to write down their love story so he can tell their two daughters when she's gone. So, based on that alone, this book starts off super heavy but definitely captivating as I just want to know the whole story. Most of this read is told in flashbacks as we see the story of how they met. In the past, over the course of several years, Daniel kept seeing her around while traveling post-graduation in Australia and New Zealand, when she was in college in London, when he visited her in Milan when she went back home. Over and over again, he was mesmerized by every time he saw her in a bunch of near meetings. We also see Daniel starting off his career after Aussie and NZ, plus years earlier when Olivia first got sick and her treatment. This book features such rich language that plays out like a movie in my head and I can totally see their story unfold. However, all the back and forth between '17, '96, and '98 is really abrupt, and it should have been in chronological order rather than just jumping around. Back to the story, Daniel was always captivated by this elusive, wild creature that she was and in the present has a deep fear of losing her and will do anything to make sure he doesn't. The book is written in the third person, but it's primarily Daniel's point of view, however, occasionally it switches to Olivia's or her friend Mimi's, which comes almost out of nowhere and a bit choppy. Even though it's a slow burn love story of this couple, you can tell Daniel always just had eyes for Olivia. Even though, predictably, it ends tragically, the epilogue aims to put a meaningful, optimistic spin on this unexplainably sad moment and show how they'll always love Olivia as they move forward because she accomplished so much she loved in her short life.

I received an advance copy of, The Night We Met, by Zoe Folbigg. I did not care for the cursing in this book. If you dont mind cursing your ok. I could not get into the book, because of the language, it interrupted the story.