The Champagne Letters, Kate MacIntosh
The Champagne Letters, Kate MacIntosh
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The Champagne Letters

Author: Kate MacIntosh

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Jackie Sanders

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2024

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Perfect for fans of bubbly wine and Kristin Harmel, this historical fiction novel follows Mme. Clicquot as she builds her legacy, and the modern divorcée who looks to her letters for inspiration.

Reims, France, 1805: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot has just lost her beloved husband but is determined to pursue their dream of creating the premier champagne house in France, now named for her new identity as a widow: Veuve Clicquot. With the Russians poised to invade, competitors fighting for her customers, and the Napoleonic court politics complicating matters she must set herself apart quickly and permanently if she, and her business, are to survive.

In present day Chicago, broken from her divorce, Natalie Taylor runs away to Paris. In a book stall by the Seine, Natalie finds a collection of the Widow Clicquot’s published letters and uses them as inspiration to step out of her comfort zone and create a new, empowered life for herself. But when her Parisian escape takes a shocking and unexpected turn, she’s forced to make a choice. Should she accept her losses and return home, or fight for the future she’s only dreamed about? What would the widow do?

About Kate MacIntosh

Kate MacIntosh is always in search of the perfect bottle of wine, a great book, and a swoon-worthy period costume drama. You’ll find her in Vancouver where in her free time she enjoys spending time with friends, teaching writing, and listening to true crime podcasts.   


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karren

1805: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot husband Francois dies suddenly and she’s a widow at twenty seven and has a seven year old daughter Clémentine to raise. Barbe-Nicole is determined to pursue their dream of creating the premier champagne house in France and with her father-in-law Phillipe’s support and bac......more

Would a woman be able to take over a vineyard and make quality wine and champagne? We meet Veuve Clicquot in the 1800s who turned her business into an empire and did it without her husband. No one thought a woman could do it. Then we meet Natalie present day who ran to Paris just so she could avoid ta......more

The Champagne Letters by Kate Macintosh was a five star book for me. I couldn’t put it down. There were two timelines and I was totally invested in each one. I loved the strong, independent and courageous women in The Champagne Letters. Kate Macintosh’s storytelling was brilliantly crafted, her rese......more

I was initially drawn to this ARC by the gorgeous cover and the story inside is just as gorgeous!!!! I love a debut and this is a fabulous one!!! I drank it up quickly!!! This dual timeline story is told in alternating chapters of Barb-Nicole Clicquot in France during the 1800s and present day Natali......more


Quotes

"Narrating duo Cassandra Campbell and Jackie Sanders team up for this charming dual-timeline story of strong women with a love of champagne. In soft French-accented tones, Jackie Sanders becomes Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, widow of the creator of Veuve Clicquot champagne. She recounts her difficult life as a vintner during the Napoleonic Era through letters to her granddaughter. In contemporary times, bright-voiced Chicagoan Natalie Taylor, voiced by Cassandra Campbell, seeks to reinvent herself in Paris after her abrupt divorce. Natalie discovers Clicquot’s letters and through them finds strength to meet life’s new challenges. Campbell’s hard-edged French accent for characters in the present complements Sanders’s melodic French tones for the widow and her compatriots in the nineteenth century."