Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Joy Osmanski
- 8 h 6 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2015-06-02
Summary:
Heralded as “impossible to put straight down” (Elle), and called a Preferred Book of the Summer by Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, and Us Weekly, Eight Hundred Grapes can be a heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel on the subject of love, marriage, family, wine, as well as the treacherous terrain in which each of them intersect.
There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide… What if your beloved fiancé, he from the crinkly smile and irresistible British accent, had kept a life-changing secret approximately Eight Hundred Grapes: A Novel from you? And what if, only a week before your wish wedding, you found out it?
Georgia Ford, bride-to-be, hops in her car and drives during the night, from LA to Sonoma, to her safe haven: her family, and the acclaimed family winery. Georgia craves the company of these who know her greatest, and whom she truly knows. Better yet, it’s the eve from the last harvest-the greatest time of the growing time of year, and Georgia knows she’ll find solace-and distraction-in the familiar rituals. But when Georgia will come home, there is nothing whatsoever familiar. Her parents, her brothers, the family business, are all unrecognizable. It appears her fiancé isn’t the only one who’s been keeping secrets…
Eight 100 Grapes is a story on the subject of the messy realities of family members, the strength (and weaknesses) of intimate love, as well as the importance of locating a location to call home. “This winning story will both satisfy on the literary level and encourage oenophiles to pour themselves a glass of a recent classic to take pleasure from while reading; it’s a tasty treat for wine enthusiasts and teetotalers as well” (Web publishers Each week). You won’t be able to place this “addictive” (Us Regular) book down.