I first heard about Josie Silver when I brought home One Day In December from BookExpo a couple of summers ago, but it wasn’t until I saw an Instagram ad for The Two Lives of Lydia Bird that I actually sat down to read these two. This is fortunately my last week of classes before finals, and while the next step is currently TBD, I’m certain that there will be blogging involved. Online college is not nearly as fun as attending classes in person, and as many people are feeling the days have at times really started to run together. I have been quarantined for over a month and blog content has been admittedly slow. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus drives away.Ĭertain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. Publishing: October 16th 2018 by Ballantine Books Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Lydia is pulled again and again across the doorway of her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. 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.īut then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie.

But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. They’d been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible.īut she was wrong. Publishing: January 30th, 2020 by Ballantine Books Try ordering from… your Local Indie Bookstore Title: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird | Goodreads

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