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Fresh water for flowers
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- Book Synopsis
- *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 colleagues-three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit his mother's ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother's story of clandestine love breaks through Violette's 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 What readers are saying: "I'd read this book over and over again" "One of those books that you don't want to end" "Absolutely amazing story" "This is one of the BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN!" "A really moving story of hope love and determination" "this is one of the most life-affirming books I have read"
- About The Author
- Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, in the Vosges Mountains, France. She grew up in Burgundy and settled in Paris in 1986. Her novel Forgotten on Sunday (2015) won the Booksellers Choice Award. Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into over thirty languages. Figaro Littéraire named Perrin one of the ten best-selling authors in France in 2019, and in Italy, Fresh Water for Flowers was the best selling book of 2020. Perrin now lives in Normandy.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781787703117
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Europa Editions, (10 June 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 334 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 32 mm
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