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The Olive Farm

A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France

Carol Drinkwater

First of Carol Drinkwater's wonderful books to be published in audio and CD.
CD contains a bonus track interview with Carol Drinkwater.
'Beautifully written with a great sense of humour, it captures perfectly the dreamy atmosphere of the South of France and its people.' - Woman & Home

The Olive Farm is a double love story. It is a lyrical tale of the real-life romance between actrress Carol Drinkwater and Michel, a television producer, and of an abandoned Provencal olive farm - Appassioniata - 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.

'Carol Drinkwater's vibrant and charming voice takes you on her personal story of her ventures with an abandoned Provencal olive farm which sees buys and lovingly restores with her new lover Michael. It is wonderful listening to Drinkwater tell her tale of the joys and challenges of adapting to life on an olive farm, the energy and activity day to day surrounding it, her embracing of Mediterranean life and the thrill of harvesting olives.'

Paul Ippolito

www.webwombat.com.au/

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