2022 Reading Challenge: a book featuring a parallel reality

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


On the night of her birthday, Lydia Bird's fiance, Freddie, is killed in a car accident on his way to meet her and her family for dinner. She's devastated. Freddie had been her love since she was 14.

His death caused her to question everything and all her relationships - including her relationship with sleep.

Her sister gives her sleeping pills and Lydia finds that when she takes them, she travels to another life where Freddie did not die. Now she must determine what is real and what is not. What life does she want? Awake without Freddie but close family or asleep with Freddie but everything else not quite right.

*****

This was a sad but at the same time heartwarming story of finding yourself through the grief. Finding that not everything you wish for is the right thing.

And Olivia Vinall's reading performance was beautiful.



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