Fresh Water for Flowers - Valérie Perrin & Hildegarde Serle

Fresh Water for Flowers

By Valérie Perrin & Hildegarde Serle

  • Release Date: 2020-07-07
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 379 Ratings

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2021
A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE & INDIE NEXT LIST PICK

A #1 international best-seller, Fresh Water for Flowers 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. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole—local police chief—who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien’s inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette’s own complicated past.

“Melancholic and yet ebullient… An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships.”—The Guardian

Reviews

  • Beautiful story

    5
    By Patty Kuzzy
    Beautifully written and translated story about finding the strength to carry on to find friendship and hope in a very unlikely place after experiencing a horrific loss
  • Love, Betrayal, Twists, & Turns

    5
    By RaeBath
    This is a gripping novel with interesting characters who are three dimensional, changing as the story progresses. It has many story lines intertwined within the focus of Violetta’s journeys. Twists and turns. abound. I came to love the many different characters, hating that the story was coming to an end.
  • Great read

    5
    By Theotheballer
    Long but very worthwhile!
  • Beautiful

    5
    By Ariana Venti
    Such a precious story I’m sad I’m through with it and will likely read again someday. A type of storytelling I haven’t read before where each chapter almost gave a new emotion. Absolutely loved it
  • Probably better in French.

    2
    By curlygirldenver
    This book dragged on and on for the first 200 pages. Finally got meaty towards the end. Only finished because we will be discussing at book club.
  • Beautifully written

    4
    By Little momma 1955
    This story was very sensual. Her prose was delicate and heartfelt. The cemetery plays a huge role in the story and is a dichotomy of death and life.
  • Dull, banal

    1
    By Pippipeppy
    Character do not live, they are all “set-in-motion “by others. No wits, no personality

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