Changer l'eau des fleurs
Violette Trenet, a child born under X and baptized so beautifully by the nurse who gave her her first care.
She will never be adopted. At 18, she has to fend for herself.
She meets Philippe Toussaint who will become her companion and husband. With him, she will have a little girl, Léonine, her treasure.
First a level crossing keeper, Violette will become a cemetery keeper and we will begin with her a wonderful series of encounters with the living who have come to meditate, the dead, the legends born from old or less old deaths.
Violette, after great suffering, will finally be respected in her life as a cemetery keeper surrounded by her friends the gravediggers or undertakers.
After "Les oubliés du dimanche", Valérie Perrin gives us a magnificent novel with Violette, a very courageous woman, turned towards life against all odds.
The author meets many characters and makes us understand how they work, such as Philippe Toussaint, the husband we would first like to call a bastard, or Sasha, the former cemetery caretaker who feels so much empathy for Violette and for good reason...
A book that includes many poetic passages like the chapter titles.
I won't forget the character of Violette any time soon.
Violette Toussaint is a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy. Passers-by and regulars come to warm themselves in her lodge where laughter and tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her daily life is punctuated by their confidences. One day, because a man and a woman decided to rest together in her patch of earth, everything changes. Bonds that unite the living and the dead are exhumed, and some souls that were thought to be dark turn out to be luminous.
The writer Valérie Perrin shares with us the intense story of a woman who, despite her trials, stubbornly believes in happiness. With this rare talent of making the ordinary exceptional, Valérie Perrin creates around this everyday fairy a world full of poetry and humanity.
A hymn to the wonder of simple things.
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