The Vineyard: A Novel

Barbara Delinsky

Simon & Schuster, 2000 - Fiction - 364 pages

Natalie Seebring, aging and recently widowed, forms a bond with Olivia Jones, a writer and single mother who has been invited to spend the summer at Seebring's vineyard to help her write her memoirs.

Contents

• Section 1: 11
• Section 2: 24
• Section 3: 37

About the author

Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Vineyard: A Novel
• Author: Barbara Delinsky
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2000
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 6, 2008
• ISBN: 0684864843, 9780684864846
• Length: 364 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Sagas