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1986, 2017: Three friends see the past catch up with them many years later
1986, 2017: Three friends see the past catch up with them many years later
1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater, move to Paris, and never part.
2017: A car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an enigmatic past, follows the case. Step by step she reveals the extraordinary bonds that unite the three childhood friends. How is the car wreck connected to their story? Why did their friendship fall apart?
Paris and La Comelle – from urban France to rural France
This book largely takes place in Paris as this is the city that the three friends find this as exciting and the place they have always said they will move to one day. This is their fresh start, far from the small town La Comelle which is as far removed from Paris as you can imagine.
Paris is a maze and a confusing and foreign place. The confusion of the city is mirrored in what hapopens with the friends as they try to navigate a place and a new stage in their lives.
Paris represents the changes in their lives and a new and large strange place they all have to navigate now
Destination/Location: Paris, La Comelle Author: Valerie Perrin Departure: 1986, 2017
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