My Real Children

Publisher Marketing: It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history; each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. Jo Walton's "My Real Children" is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives... and of how every life means the entire world.?" Review Citations: Quill & Quire 03/01/2014 pg. 31 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 03/31/2014 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2014 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 62 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) Romantic Times 05/01/2014 pg. 60 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 05/27/2014 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 06/01/2014 pg. 14 (EAN 9780765332653, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Walton, Jo Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer on publication of her debut novel "The King's Peace". She won the World Fantasy Award in 2004 for "Tooth and Claw", and in 2012, the Hugo and Nebula Awards for "Among Others". In addition to writing SF and fantasy, she has also designed role-playing games and published poetry. Her song "The Lurkers Support Me In Email" has been quoted innumerable times in online discussions all over the world, frequently without attribution. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal. Contributor Bio:  Larkin, Alison An "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, Alison Larkin is a classically trained actress who has appeared on Broadway with the Royal National Theatre and Off-Broadway with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her bestselling novel "The English American" made the top ten list of best author audiobook narrations of all time.