Suggested topics for Huguette book group conversations:
- If you’ve visited France, do you find Huguette’s story touches on any of your experiences?
- Who would you cast to play Huguette in a movie? Claude?
- Is there a location in the book you would most like to visit?
- If you were Huguette, would you have gone off with Mark Beck to war torn Germany?—Stayed or returned to France?
- What do you think are Huguette’s reasons for mistrusting people?
- Which character in Huguette would you most enjoy having a coffee with?
- Were there any twists in the story that took you by surprise?
- Would you be able to change your appearance like Huguette does? Ever felt like re-inventing yourself as Huguette’s forced to do?
- Huguette guards deep secrets, how would doing this make you feel?
- How do you imagine Huguette spends her later life in Paris? Or Lyon?
- When you read the author’s notes at the end, how did knowing which parts were true to life change how you thought of the story?