![]() Elizabeth Knox is the author of ten novels most recently The Absolute Book a trilogy of autobiographical novellas, three fantasy novels for young adults, and a collection of essays. Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep on improving through the horrors of the Napoleonic wars, and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Every year on the midsummer anniversary of the date, they meet again. ![]() One night Sobran Jodeau, a young vintner, meets an angel in his vineyard: a physically gorgeous creature with huge wings that smell of snow, a sense of humour and an enquiring mind. It won the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, where it also received the Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice awards, was longlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize, and won the 2001 Tasmania Pacific Prize. A tale of love, wine and angels, The Vintner's Luck was published in 1999 around the world in numerous editions and languages. ![]()
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