Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin

International best seller. An intimately told story about a woman who defiantly believes in happiness, despite it all.
Violette is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, regulars, and, most notably, her colleagues—three gravediggers, three groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her as often as possible to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee. Her routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a local police chief.
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