Who is Valerie Perrin, the record-breaking writer of Changing the water to flowers

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Valerie Perrin she is the writer of records and the author of Changing the water to flowers, one of the best-selling books in recent years. Born in 1967, she was born in Remiremont, France, and is linked to Claude Lelouch, famous film director and producer.

His film career began in 2006 after meeting Lelouch. Valerie began working first as a stage photographer, then as a co-writer on the director’s films. But the great success came thanks to his novels. In 2015 he published the first book, The notebook of lost love (Les Oubliés du dimanche), which received 13 awards, including the Prix du premier roman de Chambéry 2016, le prix Chronos 2016, le Choix des libraires 2018. In 2016 the novel has been translated into Italian, coming in third place in the ranking dedicated to foreign fiction, while the following year he landed in Germany.

Her second novel, published in 2018, is entitled Changing the water to flowers (Changer l’eau des fleurs) and has given her international fame. The book has won various awards including the Maison de la Presse prix because “it is a sensitive novel, a book that makes you go from laughter to tears with funny and captivating characters”. The year following its publication, the novel ranked sixth in the ranking of the ten best-selling books, while in Italy, Cambiare acqua ai fiori has become a publishing case with over 9,000 copies sold in just one week.

Not only that, Variety has announced that the bestseller will become a film produced by Palomar, the production house of Màkari and Montalbano. “I’m happy because I love Italy”, commented the writer, while the film producer Carlo Degli Esposti added: “Palomar immediately recognized all the elements that can transform a great book into a great adaptation. Working with an author like Valerie is a great pleasure and a great challenge. Her Violette is an extraordinary female character, something we have been looking for for a long time ”.

Changing the water to the flowers tells the story of Violette Touissaint, the keeper of a cemetery in a small town in Burgundy. Everything changes when a policeman from Marseille he comes to her to make an unusual proposal. The mother, who has recently disappeared, asked to be buried in that cemetery and in the grave of an unknown man. From that moment Violette will begin a journey to discover the links between the living and the dead, changing the perspective of her ever-still world.