The Olive Farm: A memoir of life, love and olive oil - Hardcover

Drinkwater, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316857637 ISBN 13: 9780316857635

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2001

Synopsis

THE OLIVE FARM is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a 'new' *French family and understanding slowly the workings and lifestyle of a vivacious Provencal community. THE OLIVE FARM opens the door on a bustling Mediterranean world using Carol Drinkwater's old abandoned villa as the gateway to it. The book explores the local landscape, the various al fresco jazz festivals, the colourful carnival in Nice, the local cuisine, meals around an oval wooden table, the cycle of olive farming and pressing, local wines, Carol's bizarre friendship with a toothless Arab gardener, hours whiled away in magnificent hammock lugged all the way from northern Brazil because its colours were an exact match for the slatted wooden shutters, and Picasso's museum at Antibes. It is a celebration of Appassioinata and its wonderful olive-groved, sun-drenched world and its unlikely cast of characters.

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Review:

The new leader of the pack (THE TIMES)

Beautifully written with a great sense of humour, it captures perfectly the dreamy atmosphere of the south of France and its people (WOMAN AND HOME)

Charming and well written (DAILY MAIL)

A spellbinding memoir (CHOICE)

Book Description:

* Restoring a French olive farm - an actress's lyrical account that will appeal to all admirers of UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.

* Subtitle: A memoir of life, love and olive oil in the South of France

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0316857637
• ISBN 13: 9780316857635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352