Helpful Score: 1
LOVED this book. Olivia's marriage is over. Her 99 YO grandmother sweeps in and wisks her away to France to get away. Old long buried secrets emerge and Olivia's entire world shifts as her grandmother's past is slowly revealed. Some romance, history of occupied France in WWII and a lesson in how the past affects the present and future!
A story of love, lies, betrayal, espionage, confusion, redemption and true love.The story takes place in a huge winery in France during the war.Two couples, the owner and his wife,and the manager and his wife caught up in a love triangle that gets more involved as they are involving themselves with hiding Jewish refugees,and arms to fight the Nazis. A grandmother, seventy years later trying to explain things to her granddaughter that she never had the nerve to explain to her son. I must say, each time it tried to explain things, I had to read the passages over several times before I "got it". She tells a good story,and it was a very emotional read.
A popular author for sure, but I really disliked this book, which I admit to not finishing. Hard to finish a book where there isn't a SINGLE character that I like. It is gimmicky and predictable, so very predictable. The modern day heroine thinks the man is married, and when he tries to explain that he isn't, she cuts him off...the grandmother tries to tell her but she cuts her off with an insult. We know where this is going. So overdone. How realistic is a 99 year old woman hopping a transatlantic flight from Paris to "pick up" her granddaughter with a terse, "Pack. We are going back to Paris." The history isn't even fulfilling. Enough said.
Nice historical setting for anyone familiar with WW II.
