The story is equal parts painful and beautiful. Josie Silver may be lifting the veil here, but the story is ultimately grounded in reality, whether those sleeping pills are a strange portal or it’s all merely an elaborate ruse of a subconscious desperate to make it all ok. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is an opus on grief, a slow burn about pain and moving on, about possibilities and choices. When the new sleeping pills her doctor proscribes, however, let her step into an alternate world where Freddie is still very much alive, she must choose between waking and dreaming, real life or the appeal of a “what if” scenario lived to the max. Jonah Jones walks away, one scar, but Lydia’s happily-ever-after is over and her days of bitterness and regret are only beginning. When Jonah’s sudden need for a ride on Lydia’s birthday makes Freddie take a detour that ends in a crash, a hospital, and a flat-line, the brightness of the future is forever dimmed. Jonah doesn’t get that three is a crowd, and his days of being useful are long over. The only proverbial fly in the ointment is Jonah Jones, Lydia’s once-upon-a-time pre-Freddie best friend, and currently Freddie’s annoying best mate who is never, ever absent.
Now, at 28, Lydia is engaged to Freddie and the special day is coming up fast. Their love is fairy-tale perfect, and they have been completing each other’s sentences since they were fourteen.
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