A children's book for grown-ups or a grown-up book for children? Either way the perfect confluence of romance, comedy and literature.
A chance discovery in the back of a drawer pulls Violet back to her thirteenth year, to memories of a student exchange between 'The Abbess Etheldreda School for Girls', and 'Ecole Irene Nemirovsky'. Even before her pen-pal Albert arrives outside the school, gates, Violet has decided to fall in love, but how can she make Albert understand, and be sure her new friend has understood her?
When Albert returns home, she is sure of their love, but she begins to have concerns over the doubt Albert reveals in the letters they exchange over months apart, so that by the time her class makes the journey to Paris, she is unsure of how she will be received.
Reluctantly, she tells the story of the revelation at Albert's home in Les Fontaines sur Seine that tests her love to breaking point.