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Olivia Jones is in need of employment. She is working as a
restorer of old photographs and is about to find herself out of work. Otis, her
employer, is retiring.
She sends out resumes to museums and art galleries
but only finds polite rejection letters. Eventually her boss puts in a good word for her
with his long-time acquaintance, Natalie Seebring. She needs an assistant to help her
write her memoirs. Olivia accepts the position, and she and her dyslexic daughter Tess
relocate to the Asquonset Vineyard and Winery, located by the sea in Rhode
Island.
Olivia quickly becomes enmeshed in the lives of her employer and
the rest of the family, secretly wishing she were a part of it all. Olivia once dreamed
of having a family of her own. She is a single mother and the only child of a mother who
deserted her, a mother she has been trying to find without success. What she bargained
for she got: Natalie’s history and the history of the vineyard and a warm acceptance from
members of the Seebring family. What she didn’t bargain for was the feelings she had for
Simon Burke, vineyard overseer and the son of Natalie’s fiancé.
This
story takes you on an emotional rollercoaster ride through the lives of the vineyard
inhabitants. You can feel the misty morning air on your face and the crunch of freshly
turned earth beneath your feet as you follow Simon through the rows of his beloved
vineyard. Your heart yearns to comfort Tess, as she struggles for acceptance by members
of her sailing class, trying to fit in and keep her dyslexia a
secret.
Learn of the tragedy that haunts Simon; peek into the
relationships of the Asquonset heirs; and come away from the book feeling as though
you’ve just returned from a holiday in The Vineyard. This is a must read for all fans of
Barbara Delinsky, and if you’re not one, you need to be!
