VALERIE PERRIN / HILDEGARDE SERLE
*A NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*Jane Garvey and Fi Glover's book club pick*
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleaguesthree gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest.
Violettes routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit his mothers ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mothers story of clandestine love breaks through Violettes carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely determination to find out who is responsible.
The funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary. A delightful, atmospheric, absorbing tale.
An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.The Guardian
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