Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle

Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel
Valérie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle
Page: 400
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781609456764
Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel

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A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE AND INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A number 1 best-seller in France and in Italy, where it was dubbed Italy’s favorite “lockdown novel,” Fresh Water for Flowers is an intimately told story about a woman who definitely believes in happiness, despite it all. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole—local police chief—who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien’s inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette’s own complicated past. “Melancholic and yet ebullient…An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.”—The Guardian

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