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The Winemaker's Wife
by Kristin Harmel
Five stars aren’t enough for this book!! Another amazingly written WWII novel by Kristen Harmel that I basically binged in one sitting. Like many of the great books set in this time period, The Winemaker’a Wife was heartbreakingly good and moving.
This is a dual timeline story, alternating between the 1940s and 2019. In the past the chapters follow, Ines, the wife of a successful champagne vineyard owner and Celine, the winemaker’s wife. In the “present” the story is told through the perspective of Olivia, a recently divorced 40-year-old who returns to Paris with her 99-year-old grandmother to find out a whole part of history she knew nothing about. The narrative dives into the horrors of war, the power of love and reveals family secrets that were buried for generations. Harmel deliberately plotted this story in a way that connected the two timelines seamlessly with the perfect amount of suspense and at times, anger and frustration over the events that occurred, but also joy when parts came full circle. It was so well-researched and most of the events that occurred were inspired by true events (definitely read the authors note).
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This is a dual timeline story, alternating between the 1940s and 2019. In the past the chapters follow, Ines, the wife of a successful champagne vineyard owner and Celine, the winemaker’s wife. In the “present” the story is told through the perspective of Olivia, a recently divorced 40-year-old who returns to Paris with her 99-year-old grandmother to find out a whole part of history she knew nothing about. The narrative dives into the horrors of war, the power of love and reveals family secrets that were buried for generations. Harmel deliberately plotted this story in a way that connected the two timelines seamlessly with the perfect amount of suspense and at times, anger and frustration over the events that occurred, but also joy when parts came full circle. It was so well-researched and most of the events that occurred were inspired by true events (definitely read the authors note).
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