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White Flag (2009)

by Thom Lane(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Loose ID

series

French Wine

review 1: Oh I really liked this! Charlie is an English travel writer and he is in France on a canal boat writing an article when he meets Mattieu - the nephew of the owner of a local vineyard. They begin an affair but Charlie is becoming more an more enamored of Matt and his entire family. Matthieu's grandmother and the rest of his cousins and aunt and uncle welcome Charlie into their home with open arms. Charlie feels a bit guilty about this though as he knows he is only there for a few days. Juliette, Matthieu's youngest cousin is determined to make Charlie stay and she does her best to show him around and introduce him to their world. The conflict of course arises when Charlie needs to wind up his article and assignment and head home before he is scheduled for a trip to Br... moreazil. He asks Matthieu to come with him but it's the harvest at the vineyard and he cannot be absent. They each are breaking the other's heart. Juliette, the teenage cousin seems to be the most wise and honest of the whole family. And certainly the most stubborn :)Lovely lovely story! I really like the setting, the characters and the ending.
review 2: While the characters in this are nothing new, and the ending a tad sappy and contrived, I still love this story for its vivid setting and authorial voice. There's a delicate romanticism to the prose that utterly fits the setting, and it sucked me in almost from the beginning. I loved how authentic it felt, and that more than compensated for any sense of sameness that might have arose from the plot. less

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