The vineyard : a novel

A complex and emotionally rewarding novel - the story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dreams become bound with the other's. When 76-year-old Natalie announces plans to marry within months of the death of her husband of 58 years, her family is stunned. Natalie decides that it's time to reveal her past and hires Olivia to help write her memoir. As the vineyard matures, her story unfolds Natalie Seebring, aging and recently widowed, forms a bond with Olivia Jones, a writer and single mother who has been invited to spend the summer at Seebring's vineyard to help her write her memoirs ON WHAT HAD BEGUN as just another June day in Manhattan, Susanne Seebring Malloy returned to her Upper East Side brownstone after lunch with friends to find a saffron yellow envelop in the mail.