Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel
496 Pages I Paperback
AĀ WALL STREET JOURNALĀ BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021
A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK
A #1 international best-seller,Ā Fresh Water for FlowersĀ is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly 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. Violetteās routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Soleālocal police chiefāwho has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julienās inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violetteās own complicated past.
āMelancholic and yet ebullientā¦ An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.āāThe Guardian
Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel
496 Pages I Paperback
AĀ WALL STREET JOURNALĀ BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021
A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK
A #1 international best-seller,Ā Fresh Water for FlowersĀ is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly 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. Violetteās routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Soleālocal police chiefāwho has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julienās inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violetteās own complicated past.
āMelancholic and yet ebullientā¦ An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.āāThe Guardian
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496 Pages I Paperback
AĀ WALL STREET JOURNALĀ BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021
A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK
A #1 international best-seller,Ā Fresh Water for FlowersĀ is an intimately told story about a woman who defiantly 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. Violetteās routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Soleālocal police chiefāwho has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julienās inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violetteās own complicated past.
āMelancholic and yet ebullientā¦ An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.āāThe Guardian
