Eight Hundred Grapes (eBook)

For everyone who loved Brothers and Sisters - a breakout novel about siblings, marriage and the pull of the family home, from an author who 'positively shines with wisdom and intelligence,' (Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I leave You) My mother said it simply: 'Be careful what you give up''Because you can't get it back?''No.' She squeezed my shoulder. 'Because, eventually, you get it back any way you can.' 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 parents' 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 Georgia's ideas about love and happiness are shaken as she realises that her parents' long marriage is not quite the picture perfect relationship she had always assumed it was. And neither is her brothers' easy-going camaraderie. As the last harvest draws to a close, Georgia discovers that in the time she's been away, the vineyard has settled into a rhythm of its own, and it'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 it's up to Georgia to bring everyone through the storm...

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There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide...On the eve of her wedding, Georgia Ford returns to her family's vineyard, shaken by a devastating secret. She yearns for the rituals of harvest, the comfort of her mother's lasagne, her brothers' camaraderie - but the family home is rife with undercurrents. Her parents' long marriage is revealed to be far from perfect , and her brothers, Bobby and Finn, are badly at odds.As the storm clouds gather over the vineyard's last harvest, sibling rivalry, marriage vows and the promise of the future are strained to breaking point. Can Georgia and her family make their peace with the secrets they have hidden from each other? Georgia must also face the secret her fiance has kept from her and decide where her heart lies.