Eight Hundred Grapes

There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide... A heartbreaking, funny, and deeply evocative novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they meet.For everyone who loved Brothers and Sisters.Growing up on her family's Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother's lasagne: chocolate. The best time to harvest grapes: dawn.Returning unexpectedly after a devastating secret shakes her adult world, she yearns for the rituals of harvest, the comfort of her artistic, passionate parents, her brothers' camaraderie. But this year the family farmhouse is rife with undercurrents. Her parents, Dan and Jenny's long marriage is not the perfect match she had assumed, and her brothers, Bobby and Finn, are badly at odds. As the storm clouds gather towards the end of the harvest, sibling rivalry, marriage vows and the promise of the future are all tested.Will the harvest be the final one for the family, or a chance for a new beginning?