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Tender, funny and bubbling with charm, this novel is another delicious drop from best-selling author Sarah-Kate Lynch. When curmudgeonly Clementine s miserable papa meets his end one frosty French night, she assumes the family Champagne house will finally be hers. Salut! But her celebration is short-lived. Suddenly the broken-down Peine chateau is heaving with unwanted visitors, unpaid debts and secrets perhaps best left buried. This is not the inheritance of which Clementine has so long dreamed but - as her precious grapes battle the elements in the hope of ripening and sweetening and one day re-inventing themselves as something truly magnificent - so must she. Sarah-Kate Lynch has published many hugely popular novels, plus a non-fiction book. She reviews, has hosted magazine book clubs and writes two columns for New Zealand Woman's Day. The Sunday Star Times summed up her writing in a review of her novel By Bread Alone: 'Witty, charming, faithfully passionate to its subject and emotionally adept. If only this book was a man.'She lives with her husband and her dog but she's often not sure where - and she likes it that way.