Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

By Laura Dave

Book Overview

Named "Best Book of the Summer" by Glamour * Marie Claire * US Weekly * Good Housekeeping * Cosmopolitan * Elle Magazine * Wine Enthusiast * Health Magazine * Metro New York * InStyle* Pop Sugar * CBS Local * BookTrib * AV Club * and as the #1 Library Reads Pick * There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide.... 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. 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. 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.... Bestselling author Laura Dave has been dubbed "a wry observer of modern love" ( USA TODAY ), a "decadent storyteller" ( Marie Claire ), and "compulsively readable" ( Woman's Day ). Set in the lush backdrop of Sonoma's wine country, Eight Hundred Grapes is a heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they all intersect. In this breakout novel from an author who "positively shines with wisdom and intelligence" (Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I leave You ), Laura Dave "writes with humor and insight about relationships in all their complexity, whether she's describing siblings or fianc s or a couple long-married. Eight Hundred Grapes is a captivating story about the power of family, the limitations of love, and what becomes of a life's work" (J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine ).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476789258
• ISBN13: 9781476789255
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Great author!

Loved this book. Couldn’t put it down.

Review

Boring..could not finish it

Excellent story

I liked the story... but really disliked the main character, Georgia. She was crusty, selfish and closed. Shame!

it takes 800 grapes to make one bottle of wine.

it takes 800 grapes to make one bottle of wine. that’s where it starts, and then it gets crazy. this book is set on a winery run by the ford family. all the characters are likable. wine and the family vineyard are woven throughout the book, like characters of their own. this was my second laura dave book. although not as great as “the last thing he told me,” this book was still very good. 4.25 stars, maybe 4.5. a couple of big twists and jaw-dropping moments.