This story could easily be a true tale of love during the dire circumstances of World War I.

Jerome Mea promises his new bride, Sophie, a fifth generation champenoise of one of the great Champagne houses, that he will be back home by Christmas. When he does not return, is recorded missing, presumed dead, Sophie is determined to ensure the forthcoming vintages, especially from the vineyard that her new husband gave to her as a wedding gift, will be testament to their love and the power of the people of Épernay, in the Champagne region.

The reader is taken on a journey that includes the horrors faced in the trenches in the Somme and Ypres. Soldiers of varying ages see their compatriots die in front of them, sometimes in mid-sentence during a conversation, to escaping and coming face to face with an enemy soldier in unexpected circumstances. In this instance, the two enemies, British and German soldiers have a friendly conversation and save each other's lives, it's quite surprising.

This is a story with love on two sides.

Sophie, the hero of the story, her husband Jerome, missing, presumed dead, but with hope of finding him alive and the love that develops between her and a handsome wounded English soldier, Captain Nash.

It's an epic novel with easily believable circumstances, set mostly in France's Champagne regions, around Épernay and Reims as well as visits to Paris and eventually to Lausanne, in Switzerland. It includes stories of the people who lived their whole lives working in the great champagne houses, vineyards and the cellars and the generations who came before.

I didn't want to finish reading this book and heartily recommend this to others who like to get lost in a good story, based on fact.

It would make an ideal gift.

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