Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

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Growing up on her familys 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 mothers 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 shes 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 whos 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 (Womans Day).

Set in the lush backdrop of Sonomas 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 fiancs 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 lifes work (J.

Courtney Sullivan, Maine).