A treat to savor this book. I loved the interweaving stories, the different types of love, and the unexpected twists. This book is filled with so much beauty mixed with sorrow and love. I did not expect a book about a cemetery keeper to be so engrossing. A pleasure to read.
Publisher's description:
Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Seul--a police chief from out of town--who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own complicated past.