The Blue of Summer Memories

Content : On the Breton island of their childhood, it’s their last summer. The summer when the past resurfaces, when silences become deafening, and nothing will ever be the same again. A chronicle of a family like a beating heart, ready to burst.

For Lucile and Salomé, summer doesn’t promise to be as blue as the sky.
These are probably their last holidays in the family home, and Colombe, their third cousin, is notably absent. Even with childhood friends, everything has changed. Feelings and grudges complicate what once seemed so simple. But perhaps the worst is this silence—the inability to talk, to understand one another.

Will the weight of memories and secrets be too heavy to bear, preventing them from overcoming their pain?

"A dazzling novel, with writing full of sincerity, that sweeps us up in a whirlwind of emotions." – Justine Vieux, Grangier Bookshop (Dijon)

Le Petit Georges Prize 2025
Real Prize 2025 (Ages 15–18).