Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

Named €œBest Book of the Summer€ by <i>Glamour</i> * <i>Marie Claire</i> * <i>US Weekly</i> * <i>Good Housekeeping</i> * <i>Cosmopolitan</i> * <i>Elle Magazine</i> * <i>Wine Enthusiast</i> * <i>Health Magazine</i> * <i>Metro New York</i> * InStyle* Pop Sugar * CBS Local * BookTrib * AV Club * and as the #1 Library Reads Pick *<br> <br>There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide€¦.<br><br>Growing up on her family€s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother€s lasagna: chocolate. The secret behind ending a fight: hold hands.<br> <br>But just a week before her wedding, thirty-year-old Georgia discovers her beloved fianc© has been keeping a secret so explosive, it will change their lives forever.<br> <br>Georgia does what she€s always done: she returns to the family vineyard, expecting the comfort of her long-married parents, and her brothers, and everything familiar. But it turns out her fianc© is not the only one who€s been keeping secrets€¦.<br> <br>Bestselling author Laura Dave has been dubbed €œa wry observer of modern love€ (<i>USA TODAY</i>), a €œdecadent storyteller€ (<i>Marie Claire</i>), and €œcompulsively readable€ (<i>Woman€s Day</i>). Set in the lush backdrop of Sonoma€s wine country, <i>Eight Hundred Grapes</i> is a heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they all intersect.<br> <br>In this breakout novel from an author who €œpositively shines with wisdom and intelligence€ (Jonathan Tropper, <i>This Is Where I leave You</i>), Laura Dave €œwrites with humor and insight about relationships in all their complexity, whether she's describing siblings or fianc©s or a couple long-married. <i>Eight Hundred Grapes</i> is a captivating story about the power of family, the limitations of love, and what becomes of a life€s work€ (J. Courtney Sullivan, <i>Maine</i>).