by Laura Dave Published by Simon & Schuster Genres: Contemporary
Pages: 272
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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 fiancé 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 fiancé is not the only one who’s been keeping secrets…
I received a copy of this book from the Summer a Reading Challenge for a honest review for Stephanie’s Book Reports.
I loved Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave. It’s a book that grabs you from the first chapter and doesn’t let you go till the very end. I’ve thought about this review for a while, on how to do it without giving anything away. I feel like one secret revealed will ruin the reading experience for everyone who reads this then picks up Eight Hundred Grapes.
This book is about Georgia. Raised in Sonoma County California with her two brothers Bobby and Finn on a vineyard her mom and dad started together called The Last Straw Vineyard. Georgia is all grown living in Los Angeles, working as a lawyer, engaged to Ben, soon to be married and moving to London. You’d think her life would be perfect, blissful, everything a girl dreams of. One fateful day though through the window of a shop she sees something that causes her to run back to her hometown of Sebastopol,CA and changes the entire course of her life.
I’ve already said I loved the book but just to be sure I want to say again I LOVED this book. I fell in love with all the characters. There is just no way you can’t. They are perfectly imperfect and easy to love. I want to pack up the car and head on out to California to a vineyard just to experience that life. I loved every second of learning about the process of wine making from Georgia remembering stories her Dad shared about wine making. Stories of the life her Mom and dad lived that put them where they are in life at that very moment. It feels like there is a lot of wisdom to take away from the beginning of each chapter and Synchronization. It’s a beautiful story about secrets, love and loss, right and wrong, following your heart or your head, happiness or true bliss. You get to experience the story from Georgia’s point of view but you experience the stories of her entire family.
I’m so glad I got to read this story Laura Dave certainly writes in such a beautiful and touching way. It’s a book that will live in my heart and I will no doubt read over many more times.
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