Bibliograph

The olive farm, a memoir of life, love, and olive oil in the south of France, Carol Drinkwater

Type

Label

The olive farm, a memoir of life, love, and olive oil in the south of France, Carol Drinkwater

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The olive farm

Oclc number

45799496

Responsibility statement

Carol Drinkwater

Sub title

a memoir of life, love, and olive oil in the south of France

Summary

British 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 Provençal community

Table Of Contents

With passion -- Water music -- Holiday boars and Henri -- Treasure islands -- The purchase -- A melon and leather boots -- Our desert prince -- Fire! -- Tracking the olive -- Pressing the olive -- Dark days -- Loss -- Return

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