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I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The authors writing style had me hooked throughout this book.

I didn't want it to end, a book I really couldn't put down.

Beautiful. This is a lovely, gentle book. An ordinary couple with an extraordinary love. Evelyn and Joseph are each other's world. They have grown up together and live in an idealic location at the beach, surrounded by their children. Their story is told across the years in a moving and believable manner. They are truly made for each other.

This book is a beautiful and tender story. I adored the way it meandered through the years, really showing how love grows and endures. I loved the characters and there were so many relatable quotes and interactions that I just loved seeing in a book.

It was also moving and really sad to see how the story unfolded with the shared aim. The ending was handled beautifully.

4.5 stars.

The Days I Loved You Most is an emotional journey that captures the raw beauty and pain of love. The author’s writing is both poetic and profound, weaving together memories and moments that feel intensely personal yet universally relatable.

The story delves into the complexities of relationships, the lingering impact of past loves, and the bittersweet nature of holding on to someone who is no longer there. Each page resonates with heartfelt emotion, making it impossible not to reflect on your own experiences with love and loss.

This book isn’t just a story; it’s an experience that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page. If you’re looking for a book that will touch your heart and soul, The Days I Loved You Most is a must-read

I tend to go into books without reading the synopsis. I’ll judge a book by its cover or I’ll be persuaded to choose my next read based on the author/title etc. so I didn’t know what I was stepping into reading this. I genuinely thought it was going to be a nice, light hearted rom com. The perfect summer read.

But this book is not that at all. It is real life. It is that nitty gritty real life love and it was one of the most beautiful stories.

I’ll start off by saying this was heavy at first and took me a while to get into, but only because my mum has Parkinson’s so the story felt a bit too close to home. But I’m trying to see the beauty in the tale over the disease. I also appreciated the fact Neff brought up the fact that you can lose your sense of smell due to the disease because after covid, this can go unseen or shrugged off.

But I must say I’m so glad I persisted in reading this. I don’t get overly emotional at books but I will admit I cried at this. It is such a raw, powerful read about love, loss and family and if you want your heart to hurt whilst, and for sometimes after, you’re reading a book - this is the one for you.

My first five star Net Galley read - thank you so to Net Galley for this arc and for Amy Neff for writing such a stunning love story.

What a wonderful debut novel this is. Heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measures. I did love Joseph's final decision !!!!
Many thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC

Such a beautiful and emotional story, it’s a fantastic read which stays with you long after you’ve read it. I will be reading other titles from this author, loved it.

I thought that this would be inspiring and it was in some ways. However too close to personal circumstances to be a comfortable read so I decided not to finish it.
The writing is good and the characters well described so for some it will be a sensitive portrayal of an emotive subject.
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC

This is such a beautiful heartwarming story. It will break your
heart but will then help you mend it

I was so excited to be given this book as an ARC and I literally couldn't wait to read it. I wasn't disappointed at all - what an amazing book.
I cried and I cried and I cried.
It broke my heart but I just couldn't get enough.
I'm still not over it.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff

Evelyn and Joseph, a couple in their seventies, gather together their three children to tell them that they have decided to end their lives in one year's time. We go backwards to every stage of their life together over the course of the book, and their epic love story is revealed. But will the pull of family change their minds about not wanting to live without each other?

Wow, what a fantastic story! I absolutely loved the way the author covered their entire life together and the joy and challenges they faced along the way. Lovely family, lovely setting and lovely ending. Very VERY highly recommended.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

A heartwarming and sweet book featuring an old married couple who tell their families they will be ending their lives in a year….this allows us the journey of how they fell in love and their ups and downs. Sweet but a little bit slow, I’m not sure I truly connected with the characters either.

When Evelyn and Joseph tell their family that she is ill and that they plan to take their lives together in a year’s time, they are met with horror, anger and disbelief. They particularly cannot understand why Joseph would choose to end his life when he is not ill, but he knows his life will be nothing without his wife by his side.
The book alternates between the two of them telling their story, and between the past and present. When their youngest daughter says she wants a divorce, partly because her marriage cannot live up to that of her parents, we go back in time to find out about their trials and tribulations, mostly that Joseph and the life he provided for Evelyn were not always enough for her, and how they got through them.
This is a beautiful book which explores the relationship between the main characters and also between them and their children. It also explores euthenasia and attitudes towards choosing to end your own life when illness becomes too much. Highly recommended.

This is a heartwarming and heart breaking read about a couple who make the decision due to illness to end their lives one year from the when the story opens.

Telling their families is very difficult and as we move through the story we see their children’s pov and set in a dual timeline we learn how they met and the journey of their lives through some 60 years.

I loved that their love was enduring and their love for each other hasn’t waned and seeing how they get together and the up and downs of their life together gives a fuller experience with the characters.

It’s a sad and difficult read in places and would make a fabulous film on the big screen. There are some difficult topics so readers should check trigger warnings before going in.

A wonderful story of love between two people who have spend their lives together.

A powerful and emotional debut novel that I will never forget.

Tommy and Evelyn Saunders have always lived in Stonybrook, Connecticut. They have grown as children, a tight friendship band with Tommy’s best friend next door Joseph Myers.
An inseparable trio.
Things inevitably change, new chapters, life evolves.

This is a love story but not in the hearts and flowers, and everything in the garden rosy style. It is powerfully emotional, written with meaning and depth. It covers sensitive issues.
I’ve never read a story before that’s come from the heart as much as Joseph’s emotional thoughts and feelings, and I found it refreshingly good to see things from his angle and perspective.
The book moves backwards and forwards in time, relaying the story, filling in the blanks.
I loved this book, but have tissues handy.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Publisher for an advanced e-book copy. Opinions about the book are entirely my own.

This book will wreck you, be warned.
It is so heart wrenchingly beautiful and so full of sadness and hope and love and despair and pain and healing - it really has everything. It's a story of an epic love, the kind we all aspire to have, but at the same time the relationship between Evelyn and Joseph is rooted in normality and familiarity. The ebbs and flows of their lives are shared with us, there is no rose-tinting going on here. What there is is an examination of what it both gives you and takes from you to love someone so absolutely for so many years, the work you have to do, the sacrifices you have to make, and the rewards you will reap.
Given that the premise of the story is that Evelyn and Joseph have decided to end their lives after one last year with their family, this is also a meditation on grief and mortality, and both are written about with such care and understanding that the overriding feeling I was left with at the end wasn't sadness but happiness that they had got to be in each others lives and built such a beautiful family for the years that they shared. Including the dual timeline to show how their love had grown and the things they had experienced and weathered together really gave a feeling that you knew this family - the one that ran that Inn down the lane, the Inn I could picture so vividly. This is cinematic writing, for sure.

what a beautiful story, it’s written with such love and attention to detail . the way everyone’s story is told but then all leads back together is breathtaking and honest.
a story of life, love, sacrifice and dreams
one thing of note, not a book to read on holiday at the side of the pool, it made me cry ugly tears…

This is a lovely and moving story about Joseph and Evelyn who grew up living next door to each other - then fell in love and have lived all of their lives together. Evelyn has received tragic news about her health and they decide that they will end their lives together on their own terms in a years time. As you can imagine their grown up children aren't too happy ! Told in flashbacks of their younger days this is a heartbreaking but also lovely story of their lives and the decision they make. Have some tissues handy! Very sad but beautiful and uplifting in the end.

A moving book that covers some tough subjects but is full of love, family and life affirming messages.
I felt the portrayal of adult children & aging parents really accurate and how they interact as siblings also. The historical stories of Evelyn and Joseph from both perspectives was written so wonderfully and I felt the ending was fittingly beautiful

My heartfelt thanks to Bloomsbury Publishing and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘The Days I Loved You Most’ beautifully written by Amy Neff in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Evelyn and Joseph Myers live in their old house in New England that was once a hotel but is now the home they share with their visiting children Jane, Thomas and Violet and their families. Evelyn and Joseph have known each other for ever, growing up together in the 1940s, separated when Joseph and her brother Tommy enlist to fight in the war, to the present time of 2001 as Evelyn is given a health diagnosis that isn’t going to go away. Now in their 70s, both Evelyn and Joseph know that they can’t live without each other so they’ve decided to end their lives on their own terms in a year’s time.

‘The Days I Loved You Most’ is a heartbreaking love story and family drama of Evelyn and Joseph and how their family deal with the news that they’ve decided to end their lives in June 2002. The story portrays the highs and lows of family life, the good days and the bad ones, but we can’t dispute the love they’ve had for each that’s grown over the years. I’ve struggled to put down my thoughts regarding this wonderful story as I’ve been crying so much I can’t see the keyboard, and the story is so poignant and utterly moving that I’m still thinking about this couple and their family hours after closing the book. I loved this story, didn’t want it to end, and if you read just one book this year make it this one, but be ready to have tissues nearby as you’ll need them.