FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS

A poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.

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.

Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a local police chief, Julien Seul, who insists on depositing the ashes of his mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. The grave Julien is looking for, and his mother's story of clandestine love, is intertwined with Violette's own secret past.

The funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who belie

ves obstinately in happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and the poetic in the ordinary. A delightful, atmospheric, absorbing tale.

Translated by Hildegarde Serle.

Winner of Prix Maison de la Presse, 2018 (FR)

ISBN: 9781787703117
Imprint: Europa Editions
Publication Date: 3 August 2021
Dimensions: 130mm x 199mm
Weight: 350g
No. Of Pages: 480