Carol Drinkwater

Author of The Olive Farm

38+ Works 1,934 Members 53 Reviews 4 Favorited

About the Author

Carol Drinkwater is a critically acclaimed actress. Among her numerous stage and screen performances she is probably most widely known for her portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small. She divides her time between London and the South of show more France show less

Includes the names: DRINKWATER CARO, Carol Drinkwater, drinkwatercaroil

Series

The Olive Series

Works by Carol Drinkwater

Popular Recent

The Olive Farm (2002) 572 copies

The Olive Season (2003) 293 copies

The Olive Harvest (2004) 194 copies

The Hunger: The Diary of Phyllis McCormack, Ireland 1845-1847 (My Story) (2001) 180 copies

My Story: Suffragette (2003) 141 copies

The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (2006) 95 copies

My Story: Twentieth-Century Girl: The Diary of Flora Bonnington London 1899-1900 (2001) 73 copies

Return to the Olive Farm (1657) 53 copies

The Olive Tree (2008) 53 copies

The Illustrated Olive Farm: A Newly Written, Illustrated Companion to Her Bestselling Trilogy (2005) 43 copies

Nowhere to Run: A Second World War refugee's diary, 1938-1943 (2012) 39 copies

The Forgotten Summer (2016) 31 copies

The Haunted School (1986) 24 copies

The Lost Girl (2017) 18 copies

The Girl in Room Fourteen (2013) 15 copies

Celebration of Olives (2004) 14 copies

The House on the Edge of the Cliff (2019) 13 copies

My Story: Cadogan Square (2012) 12 copies

The Olive Farm / The Olive Harvest / The Olive Season (2006) 12 copies

Hotel Paradise (Kindle Single) (2014) 8 copies

The Only Girl in the World (My Love Story) (2014) 8 copies

A Simple Act of Kindness (Kindle Single) (2015) 5 copies

The Love of a Stranger (Kindle Single) (2017) 5 copies

Dochter van Frankrijk (2018) 5 copies

An Abundance of Rain (1989) 4 copies

Molly (1996) 4 copies

Mapping the Heart (1994) 3 copies

An Act of Love: A sweeping and evocative love story about bravery and courage in our darkest hours (2021) 2 copies

Molly on the Run (1996) 2 copies

The Complete Olive Series: The Olive Farm / The Olive Season / The Olive Harvest / The Olive Route/ The Olive Tree /… (2013) 2 copies

Crossing the Line (2000) 2 copies

Egy mediterrán nyár (2007) 2 copies

Een daad van liefde (2022) 2 copies

The Olive Farm Series: The Olive Farm, The Olive Season, and The Olive Harvest 1 copy

Akin to Love (1992) 1 copy

Das Mädchen in Zimmer vierzehn (Kindle Single) 1 copy

Molly stikker af (1996) 1 copy

The Hunger 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

Travelers' Tales PROVENCE : True Stories (2003) — Contributor — 29 copies

All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete First Series (1978) — Actor — 27 copies

All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Third Series (1979) 21 copies

All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Series [1978 - 1990] (2009) — Actor — 21 copies

All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Second Series (2002) 18 copies

An Awfully Big Adventure [1995 film] (1995) 15 copies

All Creatures Great & Small: The Complete Fourth Series (2004) — Actor — 15 copies

Captain James Cook [1987 film] 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Drinkwater, Carol
Birthdate: 1948-04-22
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Places of residence: Provence, France
Occupations: actor
screenwriter
farmer
memoirist
Short biography: Starred as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small

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Reviews

The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive… by Carol Drinkwater

France bookbox, an English actress and her Paris producer boyfriend discover an abandoned Olive Farm in the South of France, which they buy and then rehab. A lot of learning and trials along the way

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nancynova | 17 other reviews | Sep 18, 2023 |

La escuela encantada (Coleccion El barco de vapor… by Carol Drinkwater

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archivomorero | Jun 27, 2022 |

The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive… by Carol Drinkwater

I purchased this book because I was attending a workshop in Listowel Ireland let by Carol Drinkwater. I will have to reread this book as I felt her style in the workshop was rather critical and I will say a little arrogant. We learn things from both criticism and praise so I will a

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Jolene.M | 17 other reviews | Jul 30, 2020 |