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"Quand le Bégaiement Cesse"
Genre: Young Adult/Contemporary
Daphné Bussière is a girl made of quiet dreams and golden thread. The daughter of a humble Parisian baker, she spends her mornings surrounded by the scent of warm yeast and her nights upcycling thrifted fabrics into masterpieces in her attic atelier. She is kind, honest, and creative-but she has a secret that catches in her throat: she is hopelessly in love with her best friend, Loïc Meunier.
Loïc is the boy everyone loves. Wealthy, famous, and effortlessly kind, he moves through the halls of their Lycée like a prince. But Loïc is "lost in a jungle of love." He is a naive fool who refers to every girl he knows as a "friend," completely blind to the fact that his closest companion, Daphné, is the one who truly holds his heart.
As the school year winds down, their best friends, Clementine and Maxime, launch a desperate "shipping" mission to wake Loïc up. But the stakes rise when Loïc's strict father, Eliott, demands he pursue a "perfect" future with Madeleine Lefevre-a girl of his own social standing.
What starts as a pretend relationship between Loïc and Madeleine turns into an unlikely alliance of three. But as the truth begins to unravel and feelings finally bloom, a family tragedy and a forced exile to New York threaten to tear Daphné and Loïc apart forever. In a world of marble mansions and flour-dusted bakeries, Daphné must find her voice, stop her stutter, and prove that some soulmates are stitched together by more than just luck.
• English Version
• 04/20/26