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Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues-three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest. Abandoned by her husband years ago she spends her days taking great care of the cemetery , growing flowers , cleaning headstones , reading epitaphs and meeting people to whom she provides comfort in their times of bereavement and distress. Her husband, Philippe, has abandoned her, her daily life consists of a small circle of colleagues and friends that she provides coffee and food for, the 3 grave diggers, Nono, Gaston and Elvis, the Luccini brothers, the undertakers, and Father Cedric Duras. Perrin’s writing is sublime, elegant,l yrical, melancholic, just beautiful; it is one of the best writing I have read for years.

However difficult her life may be, Violette is always drawn to the warmth and the light, those eternal forces that give her optimism and a will to survive.Realmente é a protagonista, muito bem cinzelada e muito cativante, que salva este livro porque de resto, são 500 páginas de chantilly. Há segredos, vidas duplas, traições, uma personagem que não assume a sua sexualidade, uma protagonista que esconde roupas estampadas e coloridas por baixo de casacos escuros. This kinship with Trenet establishes the powerful influence of song and music that will accompany Violette on life’s journey. The novel does not only tell Violette’s story but also the stories of the different people in her life- not only her personal relationships but those she meets in the course of her work and even those the graves of whom she tends - their loves, their lives and their secrets. An insightful novel, a book whose droll and endearing characters will bring you from tears to laughter.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Violette also likes the people she works with: the gravediggers/caretakers - Nono; Gaston; and Elvis; the undertakers - Pierre, Paul and Jacques Lucchini; and the priest - Father Cedric Duras. I laughed and cried in every chapter, started highlighting passages, then gave up when I saw there was something on every page.voltas, para trás e para a frente, numa repetição incompreensível, porque Valérie Perrin não deixa nada subentendido nem em suspenso, tem de explicar tudo como se o leitor fosse tão lento como o seu livro. It is contemporary fiction, a murder mystery, a thriller, a tragedy, and a romance all rolled into one.

Although this is a profoundly sad story (get the tissues at the ready), the message is finding hope, strength, love, and endurance in life.She has been “destroyed,” though, and as a result has retreated into herself, leaving love and happiness to others—until things change and she resolves that “unhappiness has to stop someday,” even unhappiness stemming from a grief as intense as hers for her dead daughter Léonine. He is pretty unlikable with his cheating and lazy ways, but he becomes a character to sympathize with after the tragedy. That woman is Violette who sees the sadness in those who visit the place where she provides flowers, a wise word, a peaceful atmosphere and a wise word. Vivid and memorable are the scenes in which the man giving up the caretaker's job, who planted and loves the garden, gently instructs her, and when she's at work in the garden. It isn’t that Violette isn’t warm or compassionate: reflecting on the demands of her strange job, which include assisting and often comforting those who come to bury or visit their loved ones in the cemetery she oversees, she says “for a woman like me, not feeling compassion would be like being an astronaut, a surgeon, a volcanologist, or a geneticist.

A story of life with love, loss, yearning, sadness and all of the emotions that humans experience during their lifetimes. Violette Touissant is the reclusive cemetery keeper at Brancon-en-Chalon, a position she acquired after years working as a level crossing keeper. She doesn't have a formal education so learning to grow plants is a source of pride and joy for her, as are the fruit of her labors and the vegetables, trees and flowers.She was unclaimed at birth and was raised in the system where she learned that girls in care don’t need much.