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, recommends the novel “Fresh Water for Flowers” by Valérie Perrin, translated from French by Hildegarde Serle. 

Palmer loved this literary novel, with its memorable characters and a bit of mystery.

The story follows the very likeable Violette Toussaint, caretaker of a cemetery, whose days are punctuated by cemetery visitors. One day, police chief Julien Sole shows up with his mother’s ashes and her request to leave those ashes on the tomb of a man he has never heard of before.

Fittingly for a story set near a cemetery, each chapter starts with an epitaph, and Palmer says her copy of the novel is bursting with Post-it notes, marking all the epitaphs she wanted to read again.

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The story follows the very likeable Violette Toussaint, caretaker of a cemetery, whose days are punctuated by cemetery visitors. 

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