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The
Vintner's Luck
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ISBN: 0701168633 (UK); 0374283923 (USA) |
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An irresistible story of love, wine
and angels - the tale of man, his vineyard and angelic husbandry in nineteenth-century
France. Burgundy, 1808. One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets
an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings
that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an inquiring mind. Every year
on the midsummer anniversary of the date, thay meet again. Village life
goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders,
and the vintners keep improving - through the horror of the Napoleonic
wars, and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture
changes, and gliders fly like angels. This delectably unconventional novel,
rooted in earthy reality and grippingly written, engages grand and glorious
themes on an intimate, human scale.
Elizabeth Knox is the author of five books, but this is the first to be published outside her native New Zealand. In her thirties, she is married to a publisher and lives with her family in Wellington. |
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