The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A Novel

Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reeses 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 Silvers trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at lifes crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. Theyd been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydias twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now its 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 lifeand perhaps even loveagain. 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 theres an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because theres someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.