The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A Novel (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . . .
“I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi Picoult
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.
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia’s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. 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.
But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened.
Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What’s better: a dream life full of make-believe happiness, or a real one—with real heartbreak? This is the question at the heart of Josie Silver’s tender novel. When Lydia loses Freddie, the love of her life, in a tragic car accident, the road to emotional recovery is bleak. Devastated and wracked with insomnia, Lydia discovers that her sleeping pills have an unexpected side effect: They enable her to control her dreams and reunite with Freddie. Thanks to Silver’s powerfully emotive writing, we experience the expansive joy of this discovery alongside Lydia, but we can also feel the character’s uneasiness and fear. After all, wouldn’t the real Freddie want Lydia to rejoin the waking world? We can’t count how many tissues we went through listening to Silver’s empathetic story of love and loss. Olivia Vinall’s warm and gentle narration gives the novel a dreamy quality, almost like a bedtime story. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a comforting and cathartic ode to the healing power of time.
Customer Reviews
Too long and repetitive
At first this book was really interesting but then the author drags on and on about the same thing in far too many chapters. It could of been wrapped up in less chapters. Very depressing book to read.
TEAR JERKER
absolutely loved this book! I cried multiple times. Loved that they went back and forth between both worlds.
Could not finish
Not good and very slow. Could no finish. The plot seemed to go nowhere and not enough time was spent between “worlds” to create any real stories.