Koulechov is an undertaker who lives to bury. Even as a young boy, he knew that was the job for him. Unflappability, neutrality, kindness: that’s his motto. Koulechov is a virtuoso of the funeral arts. For each of his customers (he’s up to the four-thousand two-hundred and twenty-fourth when the story begins), Koulechov takes his pen and writes a four-page summary of the life he is going to inter. Granted, these narratives (four-thousand two-hundred and twenty-four times four pages arranged in chronological order in his files) are not necessarily accurate, but Koulechov is both resourceful and imaginative.
And so the years go by, calm, almost serene, to the tune of deaths and the comforting routine of funerals.
And so Koulechov flees the living and takes refuge in death so as not to have to confront it any more.
Alas, one fine morning, Eva Rouvière comes into his place of business and asks him to bury her husband, Emile Lécuyer, in the town of Locmariaquer. Two hours later, Anne-Marie Lécuyer comes into his place of business and asks him to bury her husband, Emile Lécuyer, in the town of Guéméné-Penfao. That day, little by little, everything in Koulechov’s mind will be disturbed…

Daisies and TLC is the author’s first novel. Unflappability, chilly humor, and a pinch of the off-beat: that’s Thomas Paris’s motto. A funeral can be a cover-up! A first novel with a light, off-beat tone. The curious story of the over-sensitive undertaker Koulechov vs the widows of Emile Lécuyer.