Fresh water for flowers
eAudio - 2021
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues-gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest-visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. But her routine is disrupted by the arrival of the local police chief, who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Soon it becomes clear that his inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own difficult past. With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given listeners an intimately t...old story that tugs on the heartstrings about a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, despite it all. A number one bestseller in France, it is a heartwarming and tender story that will stay with listeners long after they finish it.
- Subjects
- Published
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[United States] :
Dreamscape Media, LLC
2021.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Online Access
- Instantly available on hoopla.
Cover image - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 42 min.)) : digital
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- ISBN
- 9781662092329
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).