The Winemakers Wife, Kristin Harmel
The Winemakers Wife, Kristin Harmel
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The Winemaker's Wife

Author: Kristin Harmel

Narrator: Robin Eller, Lisa Flanagan, Madeleine Maby

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2019


Synopsis

“Love and betrayal, forgiveness and redemption combine in a heady tale of the ever present past” (Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author) set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II. Perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Julia Kelly’s The Light Over London.

Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they’ll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater—rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.

When Céline recklessly follows her heart in a desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the champagne house that ties them together.

New York, 2019: Liv Kent has just lost everything when her eccentric French grandmother shows up unannounced, insisting on a trip to France. But the older woman has an ulterior motive—and a tragic, decades-old story to share. When past and present finally collide, Liv finds herself on a road to salvation that leads right to the caves of the Maison Chauveau.

A spellbinding and exceptional tale of love, courage, and betrayal, “once you start reading this moving novel, you will not be able to put it down until you reach the last page” (Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl).

About Kristin Harmel

Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels including The Forest of Vanishing StarsThe Book of Lost NamesThe Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. She is published in more than thirty languages and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series, Friends & Fiction. She lives in Orlando, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on December 31, 2020

2.5 stars. Beautiful setting and atmosphere. Unlikeable and irritating characters. This book had so much potential. A popular champagne house in the French countryside during WWII. Fields of grapes and rolling hills. Hidden wine caves. Resistance work. Past and Present timelines. All of these aspects......more

Goodreads review by Paige on July 20, 2019

The synopsis provided for this story is a bit misleading. Less than 15% of the story deals with the French Resistance; and moreover, it goes into little to no details about what they did other than hiding the munitions as stated in the synopsis. The members are never named, the groups are unknown, a......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on August 13, 2019

France, wine, WWII, present day, and love - all of this wrapped into one amazing, difficult-to-put-down read. We meet Inez, Celine, Michel, Thor, Liv, and Liv's French grandmother, Edith, as the story moves back and forth in time. We find out about the lives of the winemakers during the war and a secr......more

Goodreads review by Zoe on August 08, 2019

Informative, beautiful, and tragic! The Winemaker’s Wife is a stirring, immersive story set in France during the early 1940s, as well present day, that is told primarily from three different perspectives; Inès Chauveau, a young wife who after feeling neglected and misunderstood naively makes choices......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on January 17, 2024

WWII historical fiction 💔 Need I say more?.. it’s obviously gut wrenching. 😢......more