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See where it all began in the first book of the #1 Bestselling Grape Series.Sent on an exchange to France, Laura becomes not only enamored with la belle vie but falls madly in love with a local Frenchman. Can she abide by the rules while still managing to follow her heart?At the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgundy, France, for a year’s exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of North America. With a head full of dreams and a powerful desire to please, Laura quickly adapts to Burgundian life, learning crucial skills such as the fine art of winetasting and how to savor snails.However, the charming young men of the region mean Laura soon runs afoul of the rules, particularly the no-dating edict. Romantic afternoons in Dijon, early morning pain au chocolat runs, and long walks in the vineyards are wondrous but also present Laura with a conundrum: How can she keep her hosts happy while still managing to follow her heart? Follow along on Laura’s journey to I’amour in My Grape Year.#1 Amazon bestseller. Thousands of copies sold. Hundreds of 5 star reviews.Praise for Laura Bradbury's Grape Series:"Bradbury’s Grape Series feels like a series of honest and funny letters sent from a friend about her fascinating (and sometimes baffling) life in France. A beautiful read.”—JANICE MACLEOD, New York Times bestselling author of Paris Letters and A Paris Year“Bradbury’s Grape Series takes the reader on a romantic adventure into the heart, soul, and people of la belle France. Filled with delicious food, love, and laughter, Bradbury’s writing proves that you have to dare to follow your heart wherever it leads you...and that sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone to truly live.”—SAMANTHA VÉRANT, author of How to Make a French Family and Seven Letters from Paris

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"Bradbury's Grape Series feels like a series of honest and funny letters sent from a friend about her fascinating (and sometimes baffling) life in France. A beautiful read."
--JANICE MACLEOD, New York Times bestselling author of Paris Letters and A Paris Year

"Bradbury's Grape Series takes the reader on a romantic adventure into the heart, soul, and people of la belle France. Filled with delicious food, love, and laughter, Bradbury's writing proves that you have to dare to follow your heart wherever it leads you...and that sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone to truly live."
--SAMANTHA VÉRANT, author of How to Make a French Family and Seven Letters from Paris

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Bestselling author Laura Bradbury published her first book-a heartfelt memoir about her leap away from a prestigious legal career in London to live in a tiny French village with her Burgundian husband in My Grape Escape-after being diagnosed with PSC, a rare autoimmune bile duct/liver disease. Since then Laura has published three more books in the Grape series about her enchanting adventures in France, with more Grape books in the works. Laura also plans to delve into the worlds of romance and women's fiction. Ooh la la! Now living and writing on the West Coast of Canada with a new liver and three Franco-Canuck daughters (collectively known as "the Bevy"), Laura runs four charming vacation rentals in Burgundy with her husband, has an enviable collection of beach glass, and does all she can to support PSC awareness and research.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grape Books; 2nd edition (October 1, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 390 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0992158370
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0992158378
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.26 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.98 x 9 inches

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Laura Bradbury is the author of the bestselling Grape Series, an award-winning cookbook Bisous and Brioche, the Winemakers Series, and "huggable" rom coms such as Oxford Wild.

She has a law degree from Keble College, Oxford but Laura’s true love was always storytelling.

She married a Frenchman and ran off to France after graduation so she would have something to write about. Now Laura lives between Burgundy, France and an island off Canada's West Coast with her French husband and their three daughters. She can be found writing, reading, or eating snails with a nice glass of Pinot.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2015

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I read MY GRADE ESCAPE and MY GRAPE VILLAGE before reading MY GRAPE YEAR. All three of these books were very, very, very enjoyable. I’ve been to France, in which I spent the majority of my time on these two trips in Provence and the South of France. After reading these books, set in the Burgundy region of France, I would love to visit Burgundy and drink lots of those Burgundy Red and Grand Cru wines.

I read MY GRAPE YEAR last, of the three Grape memoirs.

I’m so glad Laura didn’t go to Belgium or Switzerland but to France. The Ursus Club had a trip to Burgundy and the members in Laura’s country felt Laura was mature enough to go to France, except one of them. This member was very much against students taking yearlong assignments in France because he stated every student they have sent on a France exchange has met with disaster.

Laura has an exchange with four families during her year in France, it’s usually two families. She attended one year of High School there and was lucky gain a good friend in Sandrine. One of the goals of this exchange was to learn the language, in which Laura was fluent in by the time her year was up. I don’t know if she would have been this fluent with Flemish.

Laura experienced many things during her year in France. Good eating and wine drinking were two of them. She was given wine to drink with no reservation at each host family’s home, even though at the last home the family was rarely at home -- at least they didn’t lock her out the door (read the book to know why I made this statement).

Along the way of enjoying the food, wine, learning the language and attending school in France, she fell in love with a local from a village, Franck. There was some controversy about this courtship, because one of the rules was NO DATING. Laura prevailed and followed her heart and she is the better for it.

What I enjoyed about the Grape books? The description of the foods and wines of this region -- when I do visit this region, I’ll know what to eat and drink. When in other countries, states, and regions I’ll try the local foods, but I’m with Laura on that pig’s blood dish at the Girard’s house.

What I learned from the Grape books? I learned there are things that are regional in France. I remember while in Nice, France I went to some wine stores looking for the winetasting cup called a tastevin. You would have thought I was speaking a foreign language when I asked for this item. After reading this book, I see it is probably regional to the Burgundy region in France. I did find one of these cups at a store in the city I live in. When I told the store clerk I knew what it was, they told me I was the first person to know what a tastevin was for that comes into this store. I wonder if Burgundians know what a santon is.

I was also able to brush up on my French which reading this book. I took a French course in 2011 before my two trips but these three books help me brush up on it, thanks for that Laura.

I know this author is writing a book about her Grape Wedding. I would love to know what happened to a lot of the people in the first book like: Sophie, Elise, the host families, Mémé, Thibaut, these people we met along with way of Laura’s Grape Year. I would recommend this book to anyone who is traveling to France, who has been there and who love all things French. Great read.

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Grape year abroad

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My Grape Year by Laura Bradbury
Starts out with her leaving BC, Canada and heading to France=not her first choice for one year of school abroad.
Lots of travel and new things for her to get used to. The girl that she's taking the place of is leaving to head to the USA for her year abroad.
Lots of things to consider and wonder about as she is served coffee in a bowl rather than a mug.
She had studied French in school but didn't like it so didn't learn so much. She is able to pick out a few words when others are talking. When she arrives her lugguage didn't make it-lucky she had packed shorts and a shirt in her carryon bag.
After spendng a day at the grandmothers they arrive back at the familys house where there is a older son who speaks English who's most helpful to her lack of speaking in French.
After school starts she finds everything so confusing. Especially love the lesson in how to taste wine-i knew some of the parts but not all of them. Love that there are grapes nearby and by the title know I will learn more about the vineyard.
For the most part there is French being spoken and she has no idea what's being said-she can't study that way or learn anything and the book does not translate what is being said to us reading it.
There are four different host families that she stays with and she learns so much about the culture. There is food everywhere and it's described so much in detail you get hungry.
Laura is able to learn and harvest the grapes and the processes of making the wine. Learned so much about the grapes, so glad I read this book from the start to the finish.
Loved the four major parts of a good wine and how to tell once it's poured.
Her friend has a brother and when she meets him it's love at first sight....love family gatherings and all the food.
Especially liked the places visited, so much detail to descriptons.
Excerpt from the next book in the series is included at the end.

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French Immersion in Burgundy

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My Grape Year is the latest of Laura Bradbury's book which centers on her first visit to France as a Canadian exchange student. I love books about people who pull up stakes and move to France to explore a new country and its language. Most are written by English people so it was refreshing to get a North American's experience. it is a terrifying to be thrown into a full-blown foreign culture with limited language skills... and I have been there, so I enjoyed this book a lot and laughed at her many misconceptions of France and nuances of the language. It was a great introduction to the culture and food of France as well and you will learn right along with her as she lives for a year with three different families. Being immersed in the language is the best way to become fluent and has a way of imprinting certain words and scenarios in your memory forever and Laura shares how she grows and changes over her exchange year. I loved her school and party experience and how they differed from those she had attended in Canada. Her school lunch/cafeteria experience cracked me up. Her chapter about picking grapes during the fall harvest was also delightful. However, this book is also about her experience about falling in love with a Frenchman and how this put her into conflict with her exchange families at times. To be honest, I have hosted 5 exchange students and had uneasy feelings about this part of the book. I could feel both sides of the coin. Laura writes with honesty about her feelings and this journey that turned her life around forever. If you read this book first, you will definitely want to read the rest of her books and get the "whole story"! An enjoyable read about life lived among the people in Burgundy from the viewpoint of an 18 year old, the importance of food, wine, and family to these people, and the emergence of a love story.

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Sarah Hague

Charming story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 16, 2017

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Charming book about Laura's year in Burgundy, starting off with a dream of a host family where maman cooks beautiful meals twice a day. This is the early 1990s - there is much bewailing nowadays that the French don't cook like they used to, preferring the frozen aisles in supermarkets to save time.

So, Laura landed on her feet with the family, and set about enjoying her time in France learning the language, attending the French school, meeting boys, eating wonderful food, and tasting delicious wine. It didn't all go smoothly and her host families were a mixed bunch, but she had a life-changing experience, and really that's what it's all about.

As one who met her French (future ex-) husband at her French penfriend's wedding, I can totally empathise with the efforts to learn French, deal with French people (especially 'family'), and cope with cultural differences. Laura has written a 'sympathique', realistic account that is certainly not a rose-tinted glorification of everything/one French, and is thus a pleasure to read.

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Lorraine Thomas

A young girl growing up and falling in love with French food and wine and a local young man.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 28, 2020

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I have just finished My Grape Year by Laura Bradbury and it was really interesting to read how Laura turned from a nervous teenager into a determined and better educated young lady regarding food, wine and cheese as well as becoming fluent French speaker within a year. I loved the way she wasn’t afraid to try new foods even that revolting French equivalent of the awful British Black Pudding, which I believe many people actually like! I also loved the way the Frenchmen instructed Laura in the finer nuances of wine.
I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the rest of Laura’s Grape books. 😁

anglesey sue

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 14, 2017

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This first book in Laura's story {My Grape Year) sets the scene for a wonderful, but at times challenging, life in Burgundy that most of us can only dream about. I found the book by chance but was completely hooked from the start and delighted to find there were follow-up books in the series. The tales that Laura tells of her moving to France, growing up, finding her way in life, falling in love, and generally living the Burgundian life are told with great skill, passion, humour and honesty. Who'd not want to visit? At the heart of the books is the love that she finds with Franck, her husband (I think I've fallen a little in love with him myself!) and their trials and tribulations as they find their way through life. Add to this the marvellous cast of characters - family, friends, neighbours, builders, winemakers, etc. - and you will be transported to a place that will soon be at the top of any list of places to visit. Cannot wait for the next in the series.

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Julie Haigh

An absolute delight!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 30, 2018

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From Vancouver, Canada, Laura went on her exchange year abroad in 1990. She was 17 and would be graduating soon. Her first choice of country for the exchange had been Switzerland. She ends up going to France, a year in Burgundy. All the students were presented with a list of 'Don'ts'. Would she keep to it-or would she break it?

This series of books came highly recommended to me, many of my friends have read and loved them-and I can see why. A lovely, warm read, right from the outset. Laura writes about discovering the wonderful foods. And wine. The foods are so gorgeously described. A great read and a way to totally immerse yourself in France. This book is an absolute delight, and a feast of foods.

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TrishieB

Great title - lovely memoir

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 20, 2017

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The author - then 17 - arrives in Burgundy, France from Canada on a year exchange - she has very little French but she does have some 'goals' - go to a lot of cafes, drink wine, falling in love and learn French - but not necessarily in that order! I loved this memoir - it's well written - it's full of fun, grace, learning & romance (soul mate searching/finding!) oh yes some emotional 'tests' too. Laura Bradbury describes her four host families and her friends so well - you actually feel like you could be there. The descriptions of the surrounding areas, the houses and the villages are just lovely. I need to know what happens next so I must now get Book 2 in this wonderful Grape Series.

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