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Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
by Natalie MacLean
A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry.
Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career.
Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humour, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food.
Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances.
This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.
"Forthright, wry, and heady, Wine Witch on Fire is a memoir about wine, life, and hard-won wisdom." ―Foreword Reviews
"In her new memoir, Wine Witch on Fire, Natalie MacLean holds herself and the rest of the wine industry accountable. She talks 'wine mom' culture, sexist marketing and how to cut back without going sober. It is a more personal, vulnerable story than her previous works." ―Globe and Mail
"Zesty, vibrant, meditative, edgy, structured, intense ― these words Natalie MacLean might use to describe wines all apply to her Wine Witch on Fire. With clear-eyed honesty and needle-sharp probing, her memoir covers a time of personal and professional crisis, much of which rose from the astonishing sexism of other wine writers." ―Frances Mayes, New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun
"Natalie MacLean has written a book that will resonate with women from many different generations and fields. Filled with grit and vulnerability, MacLean examines the hardest parts of being a woman in a man's world with honesty and poise. A read filled with healing and hope." ―Victoria James, bestselling author of Wine Girl
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Natalie MacLean, named the World's Best Drinks Writer, has also won four James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards. She's the bestselling author of Red, White and Drunk All Over. She hosts the New York Times recommended podcast, Unreserved Wine Talk. She lives in Ottawa.
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