
Review by Kirstin
Lush
Full-bodied with a lingering aftertaste
If your idea of the perfect summer holiday read calls for secrets, temptation and eyebrow-raising excess, then Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord deserves top billing on your TBR list. Its premise is deliciously intriguing: the elderly and charismatic owner of a French vineyard extends a wine-tasting invitation to four well-known figures from the industry. At the end of their stay, his guests will be rewarded with a sup from the last remaining bottle of one of the rarest and most valuable wines in the world. A hedonistic unravelling follows in a suitably potent commentary on ambition, prejudice and our cultural relationship with alcohol,