A review by truthmonkey
A Real Somebody: A Novel by Deryn Collier

3.0

May book for the decades challenge (1940s) I know this was a personal book for the author, so I hesitate to critique it. But she fictionalized much of the life of her great aunt in order to make it a mystery. For me, the mystery was unsatisfying, and I would have been more interested in learning more about the real life of June. Also there was a lot of talk about June writing poems and there weren’t any in the book, despite the author having all of them in her possession.