My Real Children (Paperback) - Jo Walton
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What if you could remember two versions of your life? My Real Children is an alternate history, in which a woman with dementia struggles to remember her two contradictory lives. It's a book about life and love and choices and moonbases. The new novel from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Among Others .
The day Mark called, Patricia Cowan's world split in two.
The phone call.
His question.
Her answer.
A single word.
'Yes.'
'No.'
It is 2015 and Patricia Cowan is very old. 'Confused today' read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War - those things are solid in her memory. Then that phone call and...her memory splits in two.
She was Trish, a housewife and mother of four.
She was Pat, a successful travel writer and mother of three.
She remembers living her life as both women, so very clearly. Which memory is real - or are both just tricks of time and light?
My Real Children is the story of both of Patricia Cowan's lives - each with its loves and losses, sorrows and triumphs, its possible consequences. It is a novel about how every life means the entire world.
About the Author
Jo Walton comes from Wales but lives in Montreal, where the food and books are much better. She writes science fiction and fantasy, reads a lot, talks about books, and eats great food. She plans to live to be ninety-nine and write a book every year.
- Contributor:
- Jo Walton
- Imprint:
- Corsair
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Release Date:
- 05 Mar 2015
- Number of Pages:
- 336
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN13:
- 9781472115638
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