Someday My Prince Will Come
Jerramy Fine
Gotham Books (Penguin Book)
ISBN: 978-1-592-40352-3
Non-Fiction, Memoir
Reviewed by Kate Greenwood

Jerramy Fine’s memoir, Someday My Prince Will Come, True Adventures of a Wannabe Princess, whisks the reader along on a journey beginning at age two with the author’s affinity for England and all things royal.  It is an authentic adventure based on a young girl’s dream of marrying an English prince.  Upon seeing the title, the reader might think that this tale is impossibly true but read on because this is the real life story of Jerramy Fine, who repeatedly ignored conventions to follow her destiny.

Fine, ambitious and perhaps rebellious, realizes that to marry a prince she has to escape her hippie parents and rural Colorado town as soon as high school finishes.  Her life revolves around getting to England, and when she finally arrives, befriending an Englishman who can then introduce her to all his boarding school buddies, maintaining her student and work visas, socializing at the right bars and living in the appropriate section of London (South not North London, of course!) 

As unbelievable as the whole scheme seems, especially in that none of her family or friends have been able to convince Fine that finding Prince Charming is a crazy plan (“You’re crazier than I thought.” is a routine comment from friends), the reader finds herself caught up in the dream and hoping that it will come true.

Fine’s writing style is smooth and entertaining as she comments on her belief from an early age that she was switched at birth.

“So my girlhood theory was this: The day I was born, a dreadful hospital mix-up occurred. The mix-up involved two young aristocrats from England, two ultrahippies from America and two beautiful baby girls.  Somehow, on this historic day, my infant self ended up in the hippie Colorado home rather than the glorious state home in the English countryside.”

She also educates the reader in proper English etiquette straight out of Debret’s New Guide to Etiquette and Modern Manners.   Her efforts do not go unnoticed in that more than one person alludes to the fact that she is more English than actual English girls!

This is an inspirational book about the great lengths gone by one young woman to secure her destiny and her place in the royal family.  Fine’s memoir is easily read in one sitting because the reader wants to know if finally, given over twenty years of effort, Jerramy will live happily ever after.