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The Long Table at Golden Hour
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Series: Hearthlight Cellars, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 life
Book One of the Hearthlight Cellars series.
Pull up a chair.
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