Two Lives of Lydia Bird

Lydia Bird has her whole life mapped out with Freddie, her fiancé and the love of her life since she was a teenager. Then, on the night of her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie is killed in a car accident, and the future she was counting on simply vanishes. Numb with grief and unable to imagine going on, Lydia is prescribed sleeping pills to get her through the worst nights.

But the pills do something strange: when she takes them, she wakes into a vivid parallel life where Freddie never died, where their plans are still unfolding, where she can be happy. Torn between the sleeping world that gives her back everything she lost and the waking world she has to somehow rebuild, Lydia has to decide how long she can keep living two lives—and what it will cost her to finally choose one.

Josie Silver's tender, bittersweet novel is a story about grief, love, and the slow, brave work of moving forward without letting go of who you were.