Agent: Jemima Forrester, David Higham Assoc.
This will stay with readers long after the final page is turned. Living two lives and keeping her own stories straight is exhausting, especially when those in reality are desperate for her to stay. Through lush prose, expert plotting, and richly imagined characters, Silver offers an achingly real portrait of grief transposed with the character’s intoxicating parallel universe. Following the accident, Lydia amazingly finds herself torn between two worlds- one where Freddie is alive and their life has gone on, and another where she must face life without him.
After the birth of Elle’s daughter, Lydia rises out of her funk and spontaneously flies to Croatia, where she considers a job offer, video chats with Jonah, and tries to imagine a future. But her dreams continue, aided by the pills, and in them she and Freddie get married, go on their honeymoon, and celebrate Lydia’s birthday. Lydia’s sister Elle and her mother push her to learn how to build a life without the man she’d been with since she was a teenager and encourage her to redefine her relationship with her late fiancé’s best friend, Jonah, who survived the crash. After Lydia Bird’s fiancé, Freddie Hunter, is killed in a car accident on her birthday, she gets hooked on sleeping pills and retreats into a dreamworld where nothing has changed. Silver’s latest (after One Day in December) is a heartbreaking, poignant tale of a woman suffused in a prescription drug-fueled dream state after a great loss. The unputdownable and gorgeously romantic new love story from the Sunday Times bestseller.
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