Set during World War II an unforgettable historical novel about love war family and loyalty
told in in the voices of two women generations apart who find themselves connected by a
mysterious and valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis. 1942. Seven-year-old Martine hides
in an armoire when the Nazis come to take her father away. Pinned to her dress is a note with
her aunt’s address in Paris and in her arms a bottle of wine she has been instructed to look
after if something happened to her papa. When they are finally gone the terrified young girl
drops the bottle and runs to a neighbor who puts her on a train to Paris. But when Martine
arrives in the city her aunt is nowhere to be found. Without a place to go the girl wanders
the streets and eventually falls asleep on the doorstep of Hotel Drouot where Sister Ada finds
her and takes her to the abbey and watches over her. 1990. Charlotte a commercial airline
pilot attends an auction with her boyfriend Henri at Hotel Drouot now the oldest auction
house in Paris. Successfully bidding on a box of wine saved from the German occupation during
the Second World War Henri gives Charlotte a seemingly inferior bottle he finds inside the
box. Cleaning the label Charlotte makes a shocking discovery that sends her on a quest to find
the origins of this unusual—and very valuable—bottle of wine a quest that will take her back
fifty years into the past. . . . A powerful tale of love war and family The French
Winemaker’s Daughter is an emotionally resonant tale of two women whose fates are intertwined
across time. Loretta Ellsworth’s evocative and poignant page-turner will linger in the heart
and make you think about luck connection and the meaning of loyalty.
