Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel

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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 €œa wry observer of modern love€ (USA TODAY), a €œdecadent storyteller€ (Marie Claire), and €œcompulsively 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 €œpositively shines with wisdom and intelligence€ (Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I leave You), 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. 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).