The Shortest Way Home: A Novel
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"Delightful... effervescent, heady and intoxicating." -Elin Hilderbrand
How far would you got to find the place you belong?
Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school.
But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, the couple's meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down. And then Hannah impulsively does the unthinkable - she takes a leap of faith.
Abandoning your dream job and life shouldn't feel this good. But this new reality certainly seems like a dream come true—a picturesque cottage overlooking a vineyard; new friends with their own inspiring plans; and William, the handsome son of the winery owners who captures Hannah's heart only to leave for the very city she let go.
Soon, the mission to rescue the failing winery becomes a mission to rescue Hannah from the life she thought she wanted. Crackling with humor and heart, The Shortest Way Home is the journey of one woman shedding expectations in order to claim her own happy ending.
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Miriam Parker. (2018). The Shortest Way Home: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.
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"Delightful... effervescent, heady and intoxicating." -Elin Hilderbrand
How far would you got to find the place you belong?
Hannah is finally about to have everything she ever wanted. With a high-paying job, a Manhattan apartment, and a boyfriend about to propose, all she and Ethan have to do is make it through the last couple of weeks of grad school.
But when, on a romantic weekend trip to Sonoma, Hannah is spontaneously offered a marketing job at a family-run winery and doesn't immediately refuse, the couple's meticulously planned forever threatens to come crashing down. And then Hannah impulsively does the unthinkable - she takes a leap of faith.
Abandoning your dream job and life shouldn't feel this good. But this new reality certainly seems like a dream come true—a picturesque cottage overlooking a vineyard; new friends with their own inspiring plans; and William, the handsome son of the winery owners who captures Hannah's heart only to leave for the very city she let go.
Soon, the mission to rescue the failing winery becomes a mission to rescue Hannah from the life she thought she wanted. Crackling with humor and heart, The Shortest Way Home is the journey of one woman shedding expectations in order to claim her own happy ending. - reviews
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Parker’s rewarding debut concerns 30-year-old Hannah Greene’s decision to quit the plum finance job she had lined up after business school in order to stay in Sonoma and work at a winery where she feels at home. Hannah and Ethan Katz, her boyfriend of two years, are about to graduate with business degrees from Haas School and move back to New York together when they come across Bellosguardo, an old winery, where Hannah immediately clicks with the owners’ son, William. Impulsive Hannah decides to offer her marketing skills to William’s mother, Linda, in order to turn around the winery’s fortunes. William is about to move to New York himself in order to pursue his dream of making movies, but he acknowledges the spark he feels with Hannah. Parker’s characters have all experienced the burden of balancing what they want with expectations: Linda’s marriage with William’s dad, Everett, turns out to have been one of convenience. Linda’s heart is still with her high school boyfriend, Jackson, a musician who reappears in Linda’s life now and again. Linda considers leaving Everett when he has a heart attack, which brings William back to Sonoma and leaves Hannah poring over which man she belongs with. Parker’s story becomes less about being happy with a particular guy than about finding happiness by following one’s heart. The refreshing ending is the perfect capper to this accomplished debut.
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After graduating from business school at UC Berkeley, a bright young woman on her way to a job in Manhattan finance takes a major detour at a Sonoma winery."I would never have predicted that a winery could change my life. But when I walked into the empty tasting room at Bellosguardo on the first weekend in May of my thirtieth year, a feeling came over me. The kind you get when you taste a new food for the first time and you know it will be your favorite, or when you see a guy across the bookstore and you know he'll be your new boyfriend." Some readers will feel immediate concern upon reading the first three sentences of publishing exec Parker's debut, regardless of whether they are familiar with the kind of serendipitous premonition narrator Hannah Greene has just described. The problem is, that's an awful lot of plot to give away in the first few sentences of a novel. The only hope at this point is that ensuing events are going to prove Hannah totally mistaken. Because if we already know that she's about to change the whole course of her life and that it's all going to work out brilliantly...that's a problem. Unfortunately, nothing that threatens to put any kind of serious crimp in her unfolding success and happiness will be allowed to interfere. The predictability of the storyline might have been offset if the Sonoma setting provided a showcase for serious wine and food writing. But this book has more to teach about the uses of social media for marketing than it does anything else. There's also quite a lot of focus on details of not-very-interesting clothes and makeup. When she bursts in on her boss getting dressed for a party, Hannah finds her in a slip and kitten heels. " 'You look great so far, ' I said. She did. The slip was slimming and she'd already put on makeup. It looked like she knew how to contour." There is never the slightest danger of everything not working out perfectly, and these people are nowhere near interesting enough to have a whole book written about them.Sweet and safe.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Hannah Greene, 30, finally has her life figured out. She is about to graduate from business school, has a steady, long-term boyfriend, Ethan, and a prestigious new job at Goldman Sachs. But when she and Ethan take a road trip to wine country, the thought of going back to the urban jungle of NYC pales in comparison to the fresh air and wine of Sonoma. Luckily, one of the wineries, Bellosguardo, can use someone with Hannah's business skills. She makes an impulsive decision to stay and quickly makes herself invaluable to Bellosguardo's owners as the business starts to turn around. She also begins to evaluate her life choices. Scarred from her father dying young and her mother withdrawing from the world, Hannah deals with emotional upheaval by avoiding it and blindly moving forward. Her time in Sonoma causes her to slow down and reexamine her life. While Hannah can be unsympathetic at times with her selfish decisions, the eclectic cast of characters rounds her out. Perfect to read with a glass of wine and some good cheese.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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Hannah is about to have it all, including a high-profile job in Manhattan and a proposal, which she jettisons on a presumably romantic getaway in Sonoma when she leaps at a job offer from a stumbling winery. The good news: she finds what she really wants. From the associate publisher of Ecco: HarperCollins.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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