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The Winemaker's Wife
by Kristin Harmel
The payoff of this book is the ending. Set in the Champagne region of France, the book follows inès, who has married the heir to Madison Chauveau. It also follows Julie and her grandmother Edith, the latter of whom was the best friend of inès. The book follows the German occupation of France and the affects it had on the champagne houses. Julie travels to France with her grandmother and begins to learn her rather complicated history. I found inès to be annoyingly selfish. With a war going on, she consistently put herself in danger because she felt she wasn’t appreciated enough by her husband. I was also a bit annoyed at Edith because of the way she went about telling Julie the family history. Once the ending was revealed, I did have to take a pause as the actions of the characters started to make sense. This is a good book of you are a fan of historical fiction. It made me want to do my own digging into the resistance that took place by the various champagne houses.