The two lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
Paperback published by Penguin Books 5th March 2020
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 her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants to do is 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.
Then something unbelievable happens and Lydia gets another chance at her old life with Freddie. But what if there’s someone in her new life who wants her to stay?
MY REVIEW
I missed out on reading One Day in December, so I’m very happy to be part of the blog tour for The two lives of Lydia Bird.
Two love stories. One impossible choice.
It’s quite heartbreaking, Lydia and Freddie Hunter are engaged and she is almost the happiest girl in the world. Lydia blames herself for grumbling at Freddie cutting it fine getting to the restaurant, she was impatiently waiting for Freddie to arrive on her birthday, and her family were already at the table. Freddie must of been rushing to to please Lydia. Lydia blames herself as Freddie was in an accident and died.
Prologue
Most of life’s defining moments happens unexpectedly, sometimes they slide past you completely unnoticed until afterwards, if at all. The last time your child is small enough to Carry on your hip. An eye roll exchanged with a stranger who becomes your life long best friend. The summer job you apply for on impulse and stay at for the next twenty years. That kind of thing. So I’m completely unaware that one of my defining moments is passing me by when my mobile rings at 6.47 P.m. on-4 March 2018, instead, I curse under my breath because I’ve got a Velcro roller stuck in my hair and I’m already running late.
‘Hello?’
I can’t help it, I smile as I tap on speakerphone and Freddie half shouts his greeting over the background road noise.
‘I’m here,’ I say loudly, hairpins gripped between my teeth.
‘ Listen, Lyds, Jonah’s got car trouble so I’m going to swing round and pick him up on the way back.it won’t make much difference, ten minutes max.
I’m glad he isn’t here to see the look on my face. Was it Princess Diana who famously said there were three people in her marriage? I get that, because there are three people in mine too. Not that we’re married yet, very nearly though.
MY THANKS TO
I would like to thank Olivia Mead very much for sending me an early paperback proof copy to read and review and for inviting me to be part of the blog tour today.
About author Josie Silver
Website http://www.josiesilver.com
Josie Silver is an unashamed romantic who met her husband when she stepped on his foot on his twenty-first birthday. She lives with him, her two young sons, and their cats in a little midlands town in England.
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