SuitabookGrief and remembrance
Alice returns after Poppy’s death and seeks to create a shell memorial, while shells also represent the sisters’ relationship.
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Sue Palmer - Author
A coastal mystery combines shell collecting, friendship and bereavement with wartime and present-day danger. The story may suit a child who enjoys clues and adventure but benefits from space to discuss Alice’s loss.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA coastal mystery combines shell collecting, friendship and bereavement with wartime and present-day danger. The story may suit a child who enjoys clues and adventure but benefits from space to discuss Alice’s loss.
Alice returns after Poppy’s death and seeks to create a shell memorial, while shells also represent the sisters’ relationship.
Beaches, caves, cliffs and rockpools provide the setting for shell collecting, clues and encounters with shore creatures.
The book includes a sister’s death, grief, a sinister wartime mystery, danger, traps, kidnapping and a present-day crime.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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