the two lives of lydia bird by josie silver

It was quite intriguing and heart wrenching to read these two parallel lives. This one is about Lydia seemingly living two alternate worlds where Lydia gets to experience one where Freddie lives while also dealing with her current reality with him dead.

In Five Years and Oona Out of Order but feature this as well as The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. There seems to be a new trend with women’s fiction that opens the genre up to magical realism. 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 through the doorway to 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 is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On Lydia’s 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. But where they differ is the mystical realism element that is featured in this one. Both stories are quite serious with elements of humor-I would say Lydia Bird has the edge though in seriousness as she deals with the loss of her fiancé. This is another story that will grab you right away and I ended up reading it in one sitting. So, of course, I’ve been looking forward to The Two Lives of Lydia Bird. She’s such a talented writer and really elevates the contemporary women’s fiction genre. Josie has a way, very similar to Taylor Jenkins Reid, of writing emotional scenes that truly hit you to your core. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it. I loved Josie Silver’s One Day in December it’s one of my favorite reads of the past couple of years.

The two lives of lydia bird by josie silver