Audio - Autobiography 2002

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Carol Drinkwater The Olive Farm Published May 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 585 4
Read by Carol Drinkwater
The Olive Farm is a double love story. It is a lyrical tale of the real-life romance between actress Carol Drinkwater and Michel, a television producer, and of an abandoned Provencal olive farm - which they fall in love with and buy.
And as the olives turn from green to violet, luscious grape-purple to a deep succulent black, we are drawn seductively into Carol and Michel’s vibrant Mediterranean world. We experience the highs and lows of Provencal - life: the carnivals, customs and local cuisine; the threats of fire, the adoption of a menagerie of animals and a ready-made family; potential financial ruin as well as the thrill of harvesting your own olives by hand - especially when they are discovered to produce the finest extra-virgin olive oil.
Rich and resonant, The Olive Farm effortlessly captures the joys of living in a warmer clime, of eating fresh Mediterranean food, swimming in one’s own pool, and sharing all this with the love of one’s life.
4 Cassettes Running Time: 6 hrs 15 mins Abridged by Katrin Williams Produced by Elspeth McPherson
About The Author
Carol Drinkwater has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as both an actress and writer. Her acting career spans film, television and theatre. Her best known role is Helen Herriot in BBC Television’s All Creatures Great and Small but she has also worked with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre, and Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange, and she played opposite Max Von Sydow in the film Father for which she won the Critics Circle Award for Best Film Actress. Carol has written novels for both adults and children, including An Abundance of Rain, Akin to Love and Mapping the Heart as well as the three bestselling memoirs The Olive Farm, The Olive Season and The Olive Harvest. Her best-selling children’s novel, The Haunted School, has sold over 150,000 copies.

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by Carol Drinkwater at Amazon.co.uk

Carol Drinkwater The Olive Season Published June 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0-75286 588 9
Read by Carol Drinkwater
Amour, a new life, and olives too
Carol Drinkwater’s bestselling The Olive Farm told the lyrical tale of her real-life romance with partner Michel and an abandoned Provencal olive farm which they fell in love with and bought - a double love story, recounted with wit, warmth and alluring detail.
In The Olive Season Carol is now pregnant and their ever-loyal Arab gardener is leaving to oversee the marrying off of his last son. Often unassisted, and with new challenges to face, she takes on the bulk of the farm work alone. Water is, as ever, a costly problem and she goes in search of a diviner who promises almost magical results. But, as the harvest season approaches, dramatic events cast dark shadows over their olive farm.
4 Cassettes Running Time: 6 hrs 30 mins Abridged by Katrin Williams Produced by Elspeth McPherson
About The Author
Carol Drinkwater has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as both an actress and writer. Her acting career spans film, television and theatre. Her best known role is Helen Herriot in BBC Television’s All Creatures Great and Small but she has also worked with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre, and Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange, and she played opposite Max Von Sydow in the film Father for which she won the Critics Circle Award for Best Film Actress. Carol has written novels for both adults and children, including An Abundance of Rain, Akin to Love and Mapping the Heart as well as the three bestselling memoirs The Olive Farm, The Olive Season and The Olive Harvest. Her best-selling children’s novel, The Haunted School, has sold over 150,000 copies.

at ABE

by Carol Drinkwater at Amazon.co.uk