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“This book is told in alternating chapters, but they’re both in the voice of the main character, Lydia Bird. Lydia Bird is living a wonderful life. She’s engaged to Freddie, a man she’s known since school days. On her birthday, he’s involved in a car accident and, tragically, dies. Poor Lydia is absolutely distraught. She has no means of pulling herself out of this awful grief and resorts to sleeping pills she’s been given by her mum. They’re meant to be a little bit unusual or experimental. That night, she enters into a dream where Freddie, her deceased fiancé, is alive. But it doesn’t feel like a dream; it feels like reality. The book is split into alternating chapters: “Asleep” and “Awake”. In the awake ones we’re in the present, the so-called real world where, sadly, Freddie has died. And, despite the efforts of her mum and her sister to bring her back to life, she’s very slow to recover.” Read more...
