num_pages: 476
description: Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors regulars and most notably her colleaguesthree gravediggers three groundskeepers and a priestvisit 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.Violettes routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a manJulien Sole local police chiefwho 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 mothers one-time lover and that his mothers story of clandestine love is intertwined with Violettes own secret past.With Fresh Water for Flowers Valrie 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 what seems ordinary. A #1 best-seller in France Fresh Water for Flowers is a delightful atmospheric absorbing fairy tale full of poetry generosity and warmth.
language: English
title: Fresh Water for Flowers
publisher: Europa Editions