While Eight Hundred Grapes is Laura Dave's fourth novel, this is the first novel by Dave that I've read. I've had my eye on this novel ever since one of the libraries acquired it. It's a quick read, but there are secret-y secrets that no one wants to talk about. After nearly an entire book of everyone avoiding the issues that they don't want to talk about and watching those issues fester, well, it gets frustrating. However, it is an engrossing read because you want to know how everything turns out for these people for whom the world is pretty much falling apart. Seven days before her wedding Georgia literally stumbles across the secret her fiance, Ben, has been keeping for months: the four and a half year old daughter that he found out (FIVE MONTHS PREVIOUSLY) he shares with his glamorous movie star ex. So Georgia packs a suitcase, gets out of dodge, and drives home to her family's vineyard in northern California. When she arrives she finds her f...
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