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Coles Our Last Summer in Paris: A Heartfelt Novel of Love, Family, and New Beginnings at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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She spent forty-six years writing letters to a daughter she was never allowed to keep. She never once believed she'd get to send them.
Camille Moreau has built a good, quiet life: a marriage, two daughters, a Paris apartment full of ordinary happiness. What none of them know is that before any of it, at twenty-two, she gave birth to a daughter in secret and was never given the chance to hold on to her.
When the family apartment is finally sold, Camille gathers her daughters Elena and Sophie for one last summer together, and tells them the truth she's carried alone for forty-six years.
What begins as a confession becomes a search. A locked drawer. A stack of unsent letters. A name Camille invented in grief, decades before she ever learned the real one.
As the search closes in on an actual woman with an actual life and an actual gallery outside Lyon, Elena and Sophie start confronting the smaller silences of their own lives: a marriage quietly over, a secret kept out of fear, a family that has always mistaken sacrifice for love.
When they finally find her, she isn't waiting with open arms. She's waiting with terms.
A deeply emotional story of motherhood, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to finally tell the truth. Scroll up and start today.
She spent forty-six years writing letters to a daughter she was never allowed to keep. She never once believed she'd get to send them.
Camille Moreau has built a good, quiet life: a marriage, two daughters, a Paris apartment full of ordinary happiness. What none of them know is that before any of it, at twenty-two, she gave birth to a daughter in secret and was never given the chance to hold on to her.
When the family apartment is finally sold, Camille gathers her daughters Elena and Sophie for one last summer together, and tells them the truth she's carried alone for forty-six years.
What begins as a confession becomes a search. A locked drawer. A stack of unsent letters. A name Camille invented in grief, decades before she ever learned the real one.
As the search closes in on an actual woman with an actual life and an actual gallery outside Lyon, Elena and Sophie start confronting the smaller silences of their own lives: a marriage quietly over, a secret kept out of fear, a family that has always mistaken sacrifice for love.
When they finally find her, she isn't waiting with open arms. She's waiting with terms.
A deeply emotional story of motherhood, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to finally tell the truth. Scroll up and start today.
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