Book details
Carole Fréchette - Author
A friendship-centred coming-of-age story with a strong emotional pull: Véro is drawn into Dolorès’s vivid way of living, then faces unanswered absence and the pain of losing someone important.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceHow the book presents it: The book presents this favourably.
Talk about: What does Véro learn about herself through being close to someone unlike her?
How the book presents it: The book does not clearly resolve its stance on this.
Talk about: If Véro cannot obtain an explanation, what might help her understand or carry the loss?
This could offer a thoughtful way to discuss how another person can widen our sense of possibility, while also recognising that closeness, admiration and grief may shape someone’s identity.
Pay particular attention to grief and loss.
If a close friend suddenly became unreachable, what might make someone keep searching, and how might unanswered questions affect the way they remember that friendship?
Read alongside the young person rather than rushing to explain the disappearance. Pause after the friendship and after the search begins, inviting reactions to admiration, difference, uncertainty and loss.
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Limited information
Checked: 23 September 2026.
Relevant to: Friendship and self-discovery; Absence, searching and grief
Limited information
Checked: 23 September 2026.
Relevant to: Absence, searching and grief
Benefits, discussion questions and reading approaches are suggestions. Your knowledge of your child remains part of the decision.
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