Isbn: 9798170788767 - the long table at golden hour: a novel (hearthlight cellars, band 1) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty-six chairs under three olive trees. Twenty-two names on the list.Claire Bennett notices this within an hour of arriving, and nobody else at Hearthlight Cellars seems to think it matters.She has twelve weeks. She is forty-three, she is very good at her job, and she has not come here to recover from anything - just to a small winery outside Paso Robles, for one summer, because a season of Sunday dinners for thirty people is exactly the sort of thing she knows how to fix.June will not decide a menu before she has seen the produce. Arthur cannot say what anyone has paid. There is an orchard forty minutes east and a man who runs it who declines to tell her what he wants. And the long table has been working perfectly well, for eighteen years, without a single spreadsheet.Nobody at Hearthlight asks her to stay.Across twelve Sunday suppers - strawberries in July, peaches in August, harvest at four in the morning in September - The Long Table at Golden Hour follows a woman who is excellent at fixing things through a summer that mostly does not need fixing.What to expect- Slow, character-driven literary fiction set across one California summer- Food and wine handled, not decorated - fruit sorted by thumb, peppers chosen by wall thickness, a pot of beans finished with lime- A career taken seriously, and a decision the book refuses to make easy in either direction- An understated adult relationship that is never offered as the reward- No crisis, no villain, no rescue - the tension is quieter than that- An open ending, because a summer does not settle a lifeBook One of the Hearthlight Cellars series.Pull up a chair. …