The Someday Daughter

 By: Ellen O'Clover

Location: FIC OCL

Genre: Romance

From the critically acclaimed author of Seven Percent of Ro Devereux comes another nuanced, heartrending, and ultimately healing novel, about a rising college freshman forced to spend a summer with the self-help superstar mother she’s never felt truly connected to.

Years before Audrey St. Vrain was born, her mother, Camilla, shot to fame with Letters to My Someday Daughter, a self-help book encouraging women to treat themselves with the same love and care they’d treat their own daughters. While the world considers Audrey lucky to have Camilla for a mother, the truth is that Audrey knows a different side of being the someday daughter. Shipped off to boarding school when she was eleven, she feels more like a promotional tool than a member of Camilla’s family.

Audrey is determined to create her own identity aside from being Camilla’s daughter, and she’s looking forward to a prestigious summer premed program with her boyfriend before heading to college and finally breaking free from her mother’s world. But when Camilla asks Audrey to go on tour with her to promote the book’s anniversary, Audrey can’t help but think that this is the last, best chance to figure out how they fit into each other’s lives—not as the someday daughter and someday mother, but as themselves, just as they are.

What Audrey doesn’t know is that spending the summer with Camilla and her tour staff—including the disarmingly honest, distressingly cute video intern, Silas—will upset everything she’s so carefully planned for her life.

Review by Jennifer

This book is a YA contemporary romance. It’s a coming of age story that focuses on a mother-daughter relationship.

The narrator is 18 year old Audrey. She is forced to spend the Summer on a book tour with her controlling mother. In the Fall she will be starting pre-med.

The beginning of the book was fine. But it wasn’t until the second half that I really started to love this book.

There is mental health rep. And the book focuses a lot on the mother-daughter relationship between Audrey and her mother.

I was really surprised by the last few chapters. The last part of this book was my favorite. I really enjoyed the end. What a fun YA read.