?An appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships. ?The GuardianA poignant bestselling novel full of French charm and memorable characters.Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random visitors and her colleagues.Violette?s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of a local police chief, Julien Seul, who insists on depositing the ashes of his mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. The grave Julien is looking for, and his mother?s story of clandestine love, is intertwined with Violette?s own secret past.