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Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

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There are secrets you share, and secrets you hideā€¦ A heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they meet.

For everyone who loved Brothers and Sisters.

My mother said it simply: ā€˜Be careful what you give upā€™ā€˜Because you canā€™t get it back?ā€™ā€˜No.ā€™ She squeezed my shoulder. ā€˜Because, eventually, you get it back any way you can.ā€™

Georgia Ford, associate at a lop LA law firm, has built a solid life for herself away from her childhood spent in the beautiful surroundings of her parentsā€™ Californian vineyard. The life of a winemaker was too precarious, too heartbreaking and unpredictable for her.

But just a week before her wedding to her beloved Ben, a secret is revealed that changes everything.

Returning to the family vineyard, Georgia just wants to throw herself into the grape harvest with her long-married parents, her inseparable twin brothers, and everything familiar. But the foundations of Georgiaā€™s ideas about love and happiness are shaken as she realises that her parentsā€™ long marriage is not quite the picture perfect relationship she had always assumed it was. And neither is her brothersā€™ easy-going camaraderie.

As the last harvest draws to a close, Georgia discovers that in the time sheā€™s been away, the vineyard has settled into a rhythm of its own, and itā€™s the people who tend to it who are struggling to keep their roots.

In ways she never imagined, her whole life is unravelling, and itā€™s up to Georgia to bring everyone through the stormā€¦


Verteller: Laurence Bouvard
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