My daughter, my angel, my shooting star

Sylvie Veilleux-Deschênes leads a perfect and fulfilled life. Married, mother of two beautiful daughters, holder of a university degree and holding a good job, her life is going as it should. Until 2008. That year, her youngest daughter, 13-year-old Marie-Pier, is diagnosed with brain cancer. Then begins a constant fight, both for her and for her daughter and those around them, in order to defeat the disease and thwart what seems like a bad twist of fate. A long journey slowly takes place, strewn with tears, fears and sadness, but also with hopes, happy moments and letting go. Ten months later, on her fourteenth birthday, Marie-Pier passes away. Nothing will ever be the same again for her mother. A transformation is initiated, a quest is undertaken. Sylvie Veilleux-Deschênes first wrote Marie-Pier's story in the form of a diary, a kind of personal therapy to purify her emotions, her pain, her sorrow. She wanted to preserve the details of this last year with her daughter, of this obligatory and painful passage but also bearer of tenderness, transformation and love.

Beyond the story of her daughter, the author leaves us a vibrant message: enjoy life and above all, take care of it!

Presentation: Soft binding, paperback

Author: Sylvie Veilleux-Deschênes

Publication date: May 31, 2016

Format: 15 cm × 23 cm × 1.3 cm, 216 pages

Weight: 330 g

Publisher: Le Dauphin Blanc

ISBN: 9782894367834

Only in French