Oh where to start, this book was utterly beautiful. I read One Day in December by Josie Silver and I loved it, so when I started this book I was worried it wouldn't match up but I had no need to worry. The characters are wonderful and also very real, the story line was great and I read it in two sittings as I just couldn't put it down. I will be recommending this book to everyone I know.

I read this book start to finish without stopping. I loved it, as I knew I would. This is every bit as good as One Day in December, also by Josie Silver, and it’s heartbreaking and heartwarming in turns. The story pans out exactly how you hope it will and it’s so lovely. The characters and relationships in it are wonderful and it’s just the loveliest tale.

Two Lives. Two Loves. One Impossible Choice.

Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible.

But she's wrong. Because on her 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a car accident.

So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob 'til her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to live her life well. So, enlisting the help of his best friend and her sister Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world and starts to live - perhaps even to love - again.

But then something inexplicable happens, which gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. But what if there's someone in in her new life who wants her to stay?


Due to thing happening in my personal life over the last 9 months or so, this book has been so difficult to read - but my God, I couldn't put it down.

I have cried and laughed but mainly cried throughout the reading of this book.

I was more than a little nervous to begin reading it as I was such a fan of One Day in December but I needn't have worried.
Josie Silver certainly writes about grief with such understanding and the connection that I felt with Lydia was unprecedented.