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Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much


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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR 2024 TASTE CANADA AWARD - CULINARY NARRATIVES FINALIST FOR THE 2024 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS

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.

- The Coast Magazine

Under the Tuscan Sun

, bestselling author of ten cookbooks and Food Network host

Foreword Reviews

Wine Girl



Table of Contents:

CONTENTS

• DECEMBER 2012 •
Begin at the Season’s End

Boil and Bubble 3
Toil and Trouble 10

• JANUARY–MARCH 2012 •
Back to the Season’s Roots

Tasting Sham-Pain 19
A Pox on Your Prose 31
The Crucible 45
Karma’s a Witch 53

• APRIL–JUNE 2012 •
Budbreak

Game of Crones 63
A Marriage of True Vines 68
Tempest in a Wine Glass 74
Good Witch Hunting 81

• JULY 2012 •
Pruning

Labelling Luna 89
Under His Eye 96
Glinda Gets Her Groove Back 100
Educating the Whole Witch 111
Calypso Credit 118

• AUGUST–NOVEMBER 2012 •
Harvest

The Lying, the Witch, and Her Wardrobe 127
Meeting a Magic Man 136
Hex and the City 145
Charmed 155

• DECEMBER 2012 •
Wildfires

The Scarlet Letter C: Copyright and Cabernet 163
Bewitched and Bewildered 173
Out of the Cauldron,
into the Crackpot 185
The Bare Witch Project 195
The Howling 203
Into the Legal Woods 211
A Discovery of Bitches 220
They’re Creepy and They’re Crawly 227

• JANUARY–DECEMBER 2013 •
A New Season’s Growth

Round About the Cauldron We Go 247
Trolls Just Wanna Have Fun 265
Behind the Curtain 271
The Social Spell 276
When the Hurly-Burly’s Done; When the Battle’s Lost and Won 283

Post-Morticia 288
Acknowledgements 291
About the Author 295



About the Author :

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 and hosts the New York Times recommended podcast Unreserved Wine Talk. Natalie lives in Ottawa.



Review :
This deeply personal memoir tells the inspiring story of a talented woman navigating the treacherous currents of the wine industry, finding her voice and regaining her power through a true connection to time and place, human terroir. 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. Natalie MacLean offers readers a look into the magical world of wine, addressing head-on its problematic treatment of women throughout the industry. Natalie Maclean has written a harrowing, heartfelt, and often hilarious account of the backlash she endured breaching the largely male-dominated world of wine writing. This highly personal odyssey is an eyes-wide-open take on betrayal, the insidious lure of addiction, and the sheer mettle required to rise above those seeking to cast a poisonous spell. In Wine Witch on Fire, Natalie MacLean takes us inside the compromised competitiveness of the wine industry, and the wildly unfair challenges faced by women who choose nobly to enter the profession only to be repelled by its male power base. She opens her heart with authenticity to the pain of love lost, the joy of discovering new love, and the endless questions of balancing parenting with being a working professional. Her love of language is a joyous counterpart to her love of viticulture. Misogyny, sexism, social media trolling. Natalie MacLean has been through hell and back. But her words are heartfelt and her journey inspiring. Natalie MacLean is living a life that is the definition of resilience. In her empowering new memoir, she takes us on her incredible journey filled with love, anguish, and fearless determination. Natalie’s story is an inspiration and guide to living well and fearlessly. A fabulous read! Rousing, funny, and insider-y, Natalie MacLean’s soul-baring memoir paints an evocative and compelling picture of what it’s like to be a woman in wine. Wine wizard wordsmith, enchanting interviewer, battle-tested survivor, fierce mother, witty, wise — Natalie MacLean is the whole package. Sip a great wine while you savour her memoir. MacLean is an accomplished wine writer, but this deeply personal book takes us behind the scenes, revealing one woman’s journey and extraordinary determination to become herself. Misogyny, sexism, social media trolling. Natalie MacLean has been through hell and back. But her words are heartfelt and her journey inspiring. Natalie MacLean is living a life that is the definition of resilience. In her empowering new memoir Wine Witch on Fire she takes us on her incredible journey filled with love, anguish, and fearless determination. Natalie’s story is an inspiration and guide to living well and fearlessly. A fabulous read! Told with equal parts poignancy and humour, Wine Witch on Fire is a spirited tale of determination lived on the terroir of Natalie's amazing and inspiring journey.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459751194
  • Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Dundurn Group Ltd
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 436 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1459751191
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
  • Width: 139 mm


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