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Fresh Water for Flowers

By: Valérie Perrin
Narrated by: Sara Young
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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 told story that tugs on the heartstrings about a woman who believes obstinately in happiness, despite it all. A number-one best seller in France, it is a heartwarming and tender story that will stay with listeners long after they finish it.

©2020 Valérie Perrin (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Heartfelt Funny
Beautiful Writing • Engaging Storyline • Talented Voice Acting • Wonderful Character Development • Interwoven Stories
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This is a book that deserves a wider readership. Fresh Water for Flowers wasn’t even on my radar when it was chosen as the January book for my book club. It’s such a beautifully written story. You feel like you’re making a new friend and learning about her in pieces.

Loved this book!

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I enjoyed the story but was astonished to hear french words and names
botched. I would’ve thought the narrator would have been given a few french lessons at the very least.

Good story but terrible pronunciation of french

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The narration was horrible! Find a French person for a book that was originally written in French!

Skip the audio

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Struggled to finish this one. At times the intertwined storylines became confusing. Based on the description I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

Long & Complicated Saga

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Sara Young has the perfekt dreamy voice for this story!!! Exelent performance! I will search for more by this author and more with this narator.

Beautiful story!

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I wish I had read this one. I found it hard to listen and follow the timelines and characters as they jumped all over the place.

Could have been great.

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Some of the French words are mispronounced. Maybe even all. But the beauty of not speaking it, is that it doesn't bother me. The story itself is interesting. There are descriptions that made me tear up - especially since i am a parent of a young girl. I wanted to finish it and know what happened.

Compelling story

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The repeated and extremely long lists of rambling descriptions of people and places are very annoying. The mystery of the death of the protagonist’s daughter is clumsy and awkward. I can’t understand the popularity of this waster of time. Finished it only because it is the choice of my book club. The performance is embarrassing.

Much too Long

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After 10 years with audible and 300+ audio books, I consider myself can audible fan. This is the first time I’m really disappointed. There for here is my very first review. A beautiful story and well developed characters and I loved everything about the book. Accept every time the narrator had to say a French name or sentence she destroyed it and there was a lot of it in the book. So why not a bilingual narrator? It didn’t have to be perfect French but this was so wrong. A women called Françoise. She pronounced it without the s at the end. Without it, it’s a man’s name. I first thought Luke was gay😂. This is just one example and there were many more. So sorry that a beautiful book got so butchered. I was very unpleasantly surprised by this audio version.

Why not a bilingual narrator?

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The reader was good, I’m sure it was difficult to speak in so many voices, and she did it well. Sometimes her French pronunciation was off.
But the story is absolutely wonderful. A jewel if a book!
I definitely recommend this audiobook!

A beautiful book.

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