'I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting-crying, laughing, and rooting for the heroine, who reminds us that the people we love, and the people we lose, change us, and that who we are at the beginning of our story is never who we are at the end of it.

A story that thoughtfully takes readers to the Hollywood ending they can see coming.' - Kirkus Reviews While this is in many ways the complete opposite of Linda 'Holmes' Evvie Drake Starts Over, fans of that book will enjoy it. But it is also about love found and future happiness. 'At its core, this is a story of love lost and individual growth. This will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Through lush prose, expert plotting, and richly imagined characters, Silver offers an achingly real portrait of grief transposed with the character's intoxicating parallel universe. 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 through the doorway to 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 is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On Lydia's 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.

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. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick One Day in December.

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