Book description
All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house
overlooking the sea. In my mind's eye, I have pictured a corner of
paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh
fruits picked directly from the garden and great steaming plates of food
served from an al fresco kitchen and dished up on to a candlelit table
the length of a railway sleeper... When Carol Drinkwater and her partner
Michel have the opportunity to buy 10 acres of disused olive farm in
Provence, the idea seems absurd. After all, they don't have a lot of
money, and they've only been together a little while. THE OLIVE FARM is
the story of the highs and lows of purchasing the farm and life in
Provence: the local customs and cuisine; the threats of fire and
adoption of a menagerie of animals; the potential financial ruin and the
thrill of harvesting their own olives - especially when they are
discovered to produce the finest extra-virgin olive oil... Best known
for her role as Helen Herriot in BBC Television's All Creatures Great
and Small (for which she was awarded The Variety Club Television
Personality of the Year Award), Carol Drinkwater has enjoyed a long and
distinguished career as both an actress and writer. During her acting
career, she has worked in film, television and theatre. Her credits
include working with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre, Stanley
Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange and Max Von Sydow, whom she played
opposite in the film Father, for which she won the Critics Circle Award
for Best Film Actress. Carol Drinkwater has written novels for both
adults and children, including Abundance of Rain, Akin to Love and
Mapping the Heart. Her bestselling children's novel, The Haunted School,
has sold more than 170,000 copies and was made into a film and
television series which won the Chicago Film Festival Award for
children's films. She is also the author of the bestselling memoirs The
Olive Farm, The Olive Season, The Olive Harvest, The Olive Route and The
Olive Tree. Visit her website at www. caroldrinkwater. com
