The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, Josie Silver
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, Josie Silver
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

Author: Josie Silver

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by jessica on March 07, 2020

this is a complicated book for me to rate and review. my immediate reaction is that i enjoyed it - hence the 4 stars. i must be a glutton for heartache, because ‘loss of a significant other’ is a romance trope i actually quite enjoy, even though it breaks my heart every single time. there is just so......more

Goodreads review by Irena BookDustMagic on October 07, 2022

Perfection. That is the one word I would use to describe The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. This novel has stolen my heart with it’s beautiful storyline, with the intensity of emotions it awoke in me. I honestly can’t even remember when was the last time I fell in love with the book so hard… If I’m not mista......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on December 30, 2019

5 Lovely Lyrical Magical Stars Do you believe in Magic? In the possibility of getting back the life you lost? For Lydia Bird, that possibility becomes a reality when her best friend and fiancé Freddie Hunter passes away in a car crash and she discovers a magical way to “be” with him again. Best Frie......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on March 03, 2020

This was pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be and it was (mostly) delightful! My only real complaint about this one is that it almost felt like it went on a little long for my personal tastes. I was completely gripped for the first half (seriously, I was crying like every other chapter......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on February 23, 2023

Okay, here we go! Confessions : I’m a chicken shit who never scares from horror movies but scares the hell of watching, reading tear jerker, heart wrenching movies and books! If I try to wear my big girl pants during my read or binge watch , I probably sh*t them! Some people are adrenaline addict lik......more


Quotes

“A dreamy love story . . . a moving story of grief and finding one’s way back.”People
 
“Impossibly romantic.”Cosmopolitan
  
“A novel that will make you laugh, cry, and think about the precious gift of being in love.”Today online
 
“Bursting with wit and charm . . . heart-wrenching yet hope-filled.”Woman’s World

“Another irresistible love story.”The Skimm
 
“Captivating.”—HelloGiggles

“Silver strikes gold for a second time with this tale . . . [and] delivers an ending that’s as rewarding as it is revelatory.”—Electric Literature

“As much a meditation on healing after loss as it is a gently developed love story.”Booklist (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. This will stay with readers long after the final page is turned.”Publishers Weekly

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird offers wit in abundance, deeply satisfying characterization, and a mega-dose of heart. What a journey these characters take, and what magic this author uses to bring each of them alive. Josie Silver is fresh, insightful, and daring. Her voice is one of rising strength in women’s fiction today.”—Barbara Delinsky, New York Times bestselling author of Sweet Salt Air