Sophie's Little Library

  Fiona McIntosh has done it again! The Champagne War is the story of Sophie, a newlywed fifth-generation champagne maker with grand plans for the direction of her champagne house. When her husband joins the French army and leaves for battle in 1914, they are sure he will be home in a couple of months. Before long Jerome is missing, presumed dead from a poison gas attack. Horrified by the use of poison gas in the war, charismatic British chemist Charles Nash joins the war effort and after a particularly brutal battle finds himself in the underground hospital set up by Sophie in Reims. Dealing with a missing husband, a potentially dangerous bargain with a duplicitous acquaintance and trying to keep her vineyard viable is trouble enough for Sophie, and the surprising attraction she feels upon Charlie’s arrival complicates things even more. From the start I loved this book! Fiona McIntosh writes so beautifully but also with such humour, I found myself grinning wildly at many of the th...