I honestly was crying almost every other chapter. Lydia is devastated, and the novel picks up a few months after the accident. Also in the car was his best friend Jonah, who walked away with just a few scratches. This story follows the main character Lydia Bird as she grieves the loss of her fiance Freddie, who died in a tragic car accident. I still find myself reflecting on her first novel, One Day in December, but now those characters have company in Lydia Bird, Freddie Hunter and Jonah Jones. Her words weave their way into my soul and the characters and their stories tend to stay there, and I think about them often. There’s something magical about the way Josie Silver writes. Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life’s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Lydia is pulled again and again across the doorway of her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once.

A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life–and perhaps even love–again.īut then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible.īut she was wrong. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

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