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The Lives We Found
"What I feel for you terrifies me." "Me too. Isn't it beautiful?" 1945. Following a short-lived, forbidden romance with evacuee, Angeline Carter, Dorothea Miller is adjusting to life on her family farm. The war is over at last, but the pair begin growing further and further apart…
Angeline is trying to live up to the expectations, when her father forces her to consider marrying.
With the miles between them, the passing of time and the pressure of hiding their sexualities from the world, will they be brave enough to love against all odds?
Angeline is trying to live up to the expectations, when her father forces her to consider marrying.
With the miles between them, the passing of time and the pressure of hiding their sexualities from the world, will they be brave enough to love against all odds?
- GenresHistorical
355 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2022
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September 1, 2022
"And, as they held each other, the time they had lost, the lives they had left behind, didn't matter. Not anymore."
March 11, 2023
‘We are infinite, Angie’
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
This book was very different yet similar to the first one. It had some of the same themes but this time it was more about trying to move on and how hard that is. How hard it is to forget something that you keep hoping for.
I still love Angie & Thea just as much as I did in the first book. However I miss when they were on the farm together escaping during midnight but I enjoyed them finding their other half again. All of the characters in this series will have a special place in my heart. I love found family.
I don’t think I’ve registered yet that this series is over and I’ll never get to experience these books for the first time again. I will miss that.
These books, The Lives We Left Behind & The Lives We Found are criminally underrated and deserve so much more love so please read them :)
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
This book was very different yet similar to the first one. It had some of the same themes but this time it was more about trying to move on and how hard that is. How hard it is to forget something that you keep hoping for.
I still love Angie & Thea just as much as I did in the first book. However I miss when they were on the farm together escaping during midnight but I enjoyed them finding their other half again. All of the characters in this series will have a special place in my heart. I love found family.
I don’t think I’ve registered yet that this series is over and I’ll never get to experience these books for the first time again. I will miss that.
These books, The Lives We Left Behind & The Lives We Found are criminally underrated and deserve so much more love so please read them :)
February 11, 2023
It is not perfect, but it is the best love story I’ve ever read.
January 9, 2023
I’m heartwrenched, the lives we left behind was the first lesbian book I ever read, the first book I finally felt represented in, and today, having finished the lives we found, I feel free. Dorothea and Angeline are the most important main characters in the world, their live and their struggle are voices we needed to hear. I’ve never longed for any couple to be together than I did in this book. Peggy, the boys, Florence, Lizzie, Thomas and Alan are also characters I fell in love with reading this book. Thank you for your writing Olivia, thank you for bringing to life characters that ressemble me and a heartbreaking beautiful story ♥️
June 25, 2023
Por jupiter y todos los dioses! 🥹🥹🥹 por fin lo pude leer y me arrepiento de haberlo leído tan rápido (la verdad lo leí en dos días). Esperé esta continuación por mucho tiempo y no puedo creer que por fin la leí, son este tipo de historias las que me hacen creer que el verdadero amor existe, que todo es posible y que vale la pena luchar por quien amas.
No puedo esperar a leer más de Olivia, le espera un gran futuro como escritora y desde ya les aviso que leeré todo lo que publique.
No puedo esperar a leer más de Olivia, le espera un gran futuro como escritora y desde ya les aviso que leeré todo lo que publique.
January 19, 2023
Beautiful Story
This just concluded a beautiful love story set during a difficult time. I got the anger and the denial but that longing love was never going to go away for them. Wonderfully written.
This just concluded a beautiful love story set during a difficult time. I got the anger and the denial but that longing love was never going to go away for them. Wonderfully written.
August 20, 2022
Loved the sequel. Well done Olivia. 🌟
October 21, 2022
This book is a masterpiece. I will someday add a very long review, but for now, it is enough to say that this book is better than any other book I have read.
December 1, 2022
I loved reading this. Alan needs his own book! I completely fell in love with his character.
July 25, 2023
THE TENSION. i loved it so much!
June 9, 2024
4.75 stars rounded up! Loved this!
November 7, 2025
i didn’t think the second book could be better than the first, but here i am, standing corrected, this book is beautiful and had the most perfect ending🥰
December 8, 2025
la sensación de romance de novela de jane austen q tiene este libro, sobretodo el climax… (insertar gif del pato fumando)
September 12, 2023
4.5 stars!
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