SuitabookLiving with bereavement
Celeste is coping with her father’s death while entering a new phase involving college and unfamiliar experiences.
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Bridget Hamilton - Author
This offers a poetic coming-of-age story in which bereavement sits alongside friendship, attraction, parties, photography and the unsettled experience of beginning college.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis offers a poetic coming-of-age story in which bereavement sits alongside friendship, attraction, parties, photography and the unsettled experience of beginning college.
Celeste is coping with her father’s death while entering a new phase involving college and unfamiliar experiences.
Katie becomes a new friend, while Reuben is a fellow photographer and the focus of Celeste’s growing attraction.
Consider whether a reader would welcome a story involving a parent’s death, memories becoming harder to hold, changing friendships and attraction during a period of major personal transition.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.