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Exciting, thrilling, and full of surprises as any detective story, but with the depth and colour of human beings as in a classic novel.
It was impossible to put down the book once I started. When finished, it left a strong urge to visit all the places mentioned in the book in the hope of finding something of the unbending spirit from the characters described so vividly by this brilliant author.
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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…