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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

By Josie Silver
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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.

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3.5
Slightly Smiling Face“Lydia, Freddie, and Jonah. When I selected this book as my BOTM in March of 2020, I thought I was in for a lighthearted romcom. Fast forward to Feb/March of 2025 when I decided to read it and find out that this woman’s fiancé dies ON THE 2ND PAGE OF THE BOOK. Decidedly not a lighthearted romcom but instead a beautiful story about grief, friendship, and family. I’m a big crier anyway but woah was ruined by a few sections out this book. Also, shoutout to Call The Midwife.”
“i really dislike that this author leaves the “get together” until the last line of the last page. i reeeaaallly struggled getting through this. i think its bc i didn’t really like freddie’s character at all and it felt boring with his parts. lydia was with him since 14 and she gave up a little too much of herself for him and it didn’t feel reciprocated. idk maybe that’s just me. i actually liked all the living characters in this story. i also really liked lydia’s adventure to croatia, sis needed that and her family could have honestly been a little bit more understanding about it. i liked the ending and once everything with freddie wrapped up i actually locked in to the story.”

About Josie Silver

Josie Silver’s debut novel, One Day in December, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Josie lives in a small town in the UK with her husband, their sons, and an ever-changing cast of animals.

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