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Narrator
Elisabeth Lagelée
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Translator
Hildegarde Serle
Length
9 hours 18 minutes
Language
English
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“I want to live in the world the Perrin creates. Her writing is real, fun, and unexpected. The story twists and expands and makes me ache for my grandparents who've passed, and the stories that have passed with them.”
— Brooke • Lark & Owl
An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past, from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers.
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of her days listening to her residents’ stories.
After bonding with Hélène, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Hélène to relive her memories of love and war, Hélène encourages Justine to confront the secrets of her own past and the loss she keeps buried deep within.
One day, a mysterious phone call detailing a shocking revelation shakes the retirement home to its core. At once humorous and melancholic, Valérie Perrin’s novel depicts the consequences of undeclared love and, in her inimitable way, portrays once again how the past is never really past.
Valérie Perrin is a photographer and screenwriter who works with Claude Lelouch. Her first novel, Les Oubliés du Dimanche, has won numerous prizes, including the 2016 Lire Élire and Poulet-Malassis. Fresh Water for Flowers is her English-language debut, translated by Hildegarde Serle.
Elisabeth Lagelée is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.
Hildegarde Serle is a translator who has, since graduating in French from Oxford University, worked in London as a sub-editor, mainly on The Independent. Her translations include Christelle Dabos’s bestselling A Winter’s Promise. She still lives in London, but her heart lives on the Quai aux Fleurs in Paris.
