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An Act of Love

An Act of Love
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 WW2

France, 1943. Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left...

The Forgotten Summer

The Forgotten Summer
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Var
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The annual grape harvest at the Cambon family’s magnificent vineyard is always a cause for celebration. But not this year. When an accident destroys the crop, leaving the estate facing ruin, Clarisse Cambon knows exactly who to blame –...

The Lost Girl

The Lost Girl
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Since her daughter went missing four years earlier, celebrated photographer Kurtiz Ross has been a woman alone. Her only companion her camera. Since Lizzie disappeared, she has blamed and isolated herself, given up hope. Until, out of the blue,...

One Summer in Provence

One Summer in Provence
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Celia Grey appears to have the perfect life: married to Dominic, the man of her dreams, and living on a glorious, thriving vineyard in the south of France. To celebrate their good fortune, she decides to throw a huge...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

The Olive Harvest

The Olive Harvest
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The third episode of a bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM,… “The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras...

The Olive Season

The Olive Season
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d’Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers. Beyond them,...

The Olive Farm

The Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet, Provence
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind’s eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather to swim, relax, debate, eat fresh fruits picked directly...

The House on the Edge of the Cliff

The House on the Edge of the Cliff
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to present

No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . . Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men. She fell under...

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