About The Book
Exploring the what-ifs of a love story had a catastrophic event not occur, and is told in two separate, yet seeming convergent, timelines: “Awake” and “Asleep”.
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia’s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life—and perhaps even love—again.
But then something inexplicable happens that 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.
Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.
My Review: Bollywood called, they want their ideas back
Have you ever seen Kuch Kuch Kota Hai? It’s a movie about a guy who meets these two girls in high school, one of them is his best friend and the other is some new girl who joins and he marries the latter but she dies and then together with his daughter they find the former best friend and he re-marries her thus living happily ever after. SOUND FAMILIAR??????? Almost identical premises and at least the Bollywood version has nice songs.
Why You Should Read It
You can watch it on Netflix – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is currently streaming.