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One of her gravediggers, Glaston, is a bit clumsy, which allows some humor in a very solemn business. Violette again does all the work while Philippe plays games, rides his bike, and philanders - but Violette is content with her home and vegetable garden. You see the potential and wish they could be the novel that you know it could be with the right editor and plenty of work thrown into it.

I did know that it was about a cemetery keeper, so I expected it to be about death, which it certainly is. But almost from the time that Phillipe entered Violette's life, he was leaving her, until he finally was gone for good. Julien is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother's story of clandestine love breaks through Violette's carefully constructed defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely determination to find out who is responsible. Violette Touissant never knew a family home, having been given up at birth and fostered out over the years.

En 2018, elle a reçu le prix Maison de la Presse pour son deuxième roman "Changer l'eau des fleurs" (Albin Michel, 2018).

He is pretty unlikable with his cheating and lazy ways, but he becomes a character to sympathize with after the tragedy. Violette Toussaint is an extraordinary character— a woman of incredible heart and spirit who will remain in my memory for a long time. As a cemetery keeper, Violette is surrounded by other people’s death and mourning: a connoisseur of funerals, she believes you can understand and maybe even judge someone’s life by the send-off they get.

She aged out of the system and found work as a bartender where she met her husband, the philanderer and emotionally cruel Philippe Toussaint. Come una vestale discreta cammina lungo i viali del camposanto, avendo l’intima consapevolezza che un giorno tutti i cimiteri diventeranno giardini.