The Someday Daughter is a tender story about mothers and daughters. It’s about love and realizing that success and what we think we want might not be true. Keep reading this book review of The Someday Daughter for my full thoughts.
Summary
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
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
The Someday Daughter is mother and daughter relationship core. I loved not only the ways that Audrey comes to term with herself, but also her relationship with her mother. We all can think of a moment when our parents transitioned from being a parent to a person. When there’s this moment of disillusionment, of pulling aside the curtain. And The Someday Daughter exists as a step on this journey of seeing our relationship with our parents more as people, as people who make mistakes, and have regrets. At the same time, it’s a story about realizing that when we are so focused on what we think is the next step, we miss out on the now.
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When we are so focused on a path, a surefire plan for the success we think we need and identify with, what happens when something knocks us askew? When we realize that perhaps we don’t want to go where we’re headed? The Someday Daughter is about trying so hard to forget this lonely castle of achievement and planning. We can be on a different path and something that we might not have planned for doesn’t have to threaten our goals. We don’t have to identify ourselves, our moments, our days, by where we want to go.
The Someday Daughter reinforces that we don’t have to earn love or the right to matter to someone. Find The Someday Daughter on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon, Bookshop.org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.