num_pages: 320
description: A powerful memoir of how one woman 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 worlds 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.Courageousthats the first word that comes to mind while reading Natalie MacLeans new memoir Wine Witch on Fire. MacLean is an accomplished wine writer but this deeply personal book takes us behind the scenes revealing one womans journey and extraordinary determination to become herself.- Karen MacNeil best-selling author of The Wine BibleNatalie 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 mans world with honesty and poise. A read filled with healing and hope.- Victoria James best-selling author of memoir Wine GirlThis 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.- Chef Michael Smith bestselling author of ten cookbooks Food Network host Order of Canada
language: English
title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
publisher: Dundurn Press