My Real Children by Jo Walton is a fascinating story. In
it we meet Patricia, in 2015, very old and suffering from dementia she is
usually described by her nurses as very confused. She has reason to be confused as she can
clearly remember living two completely different lives that stemmed from one
yes/no choice she made in her early 20s.
The book follows Patricia’s remembrance of both lives and reveals that not only Patricia’s life is different in each life but the entire world around
her --- for whatever reason her own yes/no choice sent the world on two very
different paths.
This was an entertaining book with interesting characters
and the added fascination of piecing out what is different in each version of
reality. I would recommend it to lovers of
speculative fiction and historical fiction alike.
