My Real Children
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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.
Author: Jo Walton
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 156mm x 234mm
Published: 2014, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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.