Fresh Water for Flowers

Fresh Water for Flowers
Valerie Perrin, Hildegarde Serle
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NZ$ 24.99
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
10 Jun 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781787703117
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Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and her colleagues- three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her as often as possible to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee that she offers them. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of their hilarious and touching confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a man - Julien Sole, local police chief - who insists on depositing the ashes of his recently departed mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that the grave Julien is looking for belongs to his mother's one-time lover, and that his mother's story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violette's own past. With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valerie Perrin has given readers a funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness. Perrin has the rare talent of illuminating what is exceptional and poetic in the seemingly ordinary.
"An insightful novel, a book whose droll and endearing characters will bring you from tears to laughter." -- Michel Bussi
"Breathtaking." * Unidivers *
"The balance between laughter and tears is spot on." * Lire *
"Thundering applause. And, believe us, the word 'thunder' is not too strong." * La Marseillese *
"A bad, bad, bad case of love at first read. This is a splendid, moving book." * C'est au programma *
Valerie Perrin is a photographer and screenwriter who works with Claude Lelouch. Her first novel, Les Oublies du Dimanche, has won numerous prizes, including the 2016 Lire Elire and Poulet-Malassis prizes.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787703117
Published: 10 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK)
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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