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Summer at the French Olive Grove

Author : Sophie Claire

Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 10,26 MB

Release : 2021-05-27

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1529349966

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**Sophie Claire's sparkling new romance novel, This Christmas in Paris, is available to pre-order now!** Could love be the biggest adventure of all? Filmmaker Lily's life is all about work and adventure. So when she suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating in the quiet French seaside village where she spent her childhood, she can't wait to escape. Not least because Olivier - Lily's childhood friend and former crush, who she has spent the last thirteen years avoiding - is staying next door . . . Strong-minded baker Olivier is happily settled in St Pierre, preparing to marry and put down roots. But Lily's return to the village risks turning his carefully-laid plans upside-down, and as the pair rediscover their familiar rivalry and fun, sparks fly. Is Lily really as fearless and independent as she seems on the surface - or is she just running from the past? And what if Olivier is the only one who can teach her what it really means to be brave? *** Readers love Summer at the French Olive Grove! 'Romantic . . . heartwarming and uplifting' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'The perfect summery read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'Heartwarming, humorous and heartbreaking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'Glorious setting . . . you can almost feel the warm sunshine on your skin' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'A stunning story . . . heart, love, loss and a delightful cast of characters' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review



Summer at the French Olive Grove

Author : Sophie Claire

Publisher :

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 39,94 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Accident victims

ISBN : 9781004060894

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Filmmaker Lily's life is all about work and adventure. So when she suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating in the quiet French seaside village where she spent her childhood, she can't wait to escape. Not least because Olivier - Lily's childhood friend and former crush, who she has spent the last thirteen years avoiding - is staying next door. Strong-minded masterbaker Olivier is happily settled in St Pierre, preparing to marry and put down roots. But Lily's return to the village risks turning his carefully-laid plans upside down, and as the pair rediscover their familiar rivalry and fun, sparks fly. Is Lily really as fearless and independent as she seems on the surface - or is she just running from the past? And what if Olivier is the only one who can teach her what it really means to be brave?



The Olive Farm

Author : Carol Drinkwater

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 25,71 MB

Release : 2002-06-25

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0142001309

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When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them in contact with the charming countryside of Provence, its querulous personalities, petty bureaucracies, and extraordinary wildlife. From the glamour of Cannes and the Isles of Lérins to the charm of her own small plot of land-which she transforms from overgrown weeds into a thriving farm-Drinkwater triumphantly relates how she realized her dream of a peaceful, meaningful life.



The Olive Farm Series

Author : Carol Drinkwater

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 950 pages

File Size : 41,46 MB

Release : 2022-12-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1504084179

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The acclaimed actress and author recounts her new life on a French olive farm, in this collection of three “good-humored and well-written” memoirs (The Washington Post). The Olive Farm After falling in love with Provence, actress Carol Drinkwater and her film-producer fiancé, Michel, decide to purchase an abandoned farm near Cannes. Inspired but inexperienced, they begin fixing up the ten-acre property as they meet quirky locals, puzzle through France’s legal bureaucracy, and explore nearby Mediterranean islands. The Olive Season As newlyweds Carol and Michel settle into marriage, they experience the glamor of southern France with its aristocratic dinner parties and the world-renowned Cannes film festival—as well as the dirt-caked, sunbaked life of farmers. Carol also shares her hopes and fears as she anticipates motherhood in this alternately entertaining and emotionally poignant memoir. The Olive Harvest When Carol and Michel return to Provence, they face a season of great difficulty. The farm is suffering from drought, and wild boars have been destroying the fences. But there are bigger problems to come when an accident in Monte Carlo leaves Michel barely functional. As he recuperates, Carol must face challenges of all kinds—and hope that in the end, nature will provide.



The Olive Season

Author : Carol Drinkwater

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 318 pages

File Size : 36,83 MB

Release : 2022-10-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1504078713

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“A lovely balance of memoir, travelogue and olive-growing how-to . . . Some of her adventures are quite funny.” —Publishers Weekly In this memoir, the author of The Olive Farm returns to the ten-acre property for which she and her fiancé scraped together their savings to buy—just back from their wedding on a tiny Polynesian island, loaded down with luggage and a large hand-painted didgeridoo. As Carol and Michel settle in as husband and wife, they experience the glamor of southern France at dinner parties in the company of aristocrats and at the world-renowned Cannes film festival, as well as the dirt-caked, sun-baked life of farmers—especially after their gardener heads to Algiers to arrange his youngest son’s wedding. For Carol, though, what matters most is that her longtime dream of motherhood finally promises to come true—and over the course of The Olive Season, she shares the story of her hopes and fears as she anticipates another kind of growth and nurturing. Alternately entertaining and emotionally poignant, this memoir is a rich portrait of love, longing, and the constant uncertainties of the cycle of life.



The Olive Harvest

Author : Carol Drinkwater

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 14,11 MB

Release : 2022-10-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1504078721

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The story of life on a French olive farm continues with this moving memoir of hard work, hard luck, and waiting for the return of happiness. Carol Drinkwater and her husband, Michel, arrive at their villa in Provence in anticipation of another glorious summer. Unfortunately, they find the farm unkempt and suffering from lack of rainfall. When their gardener, Monsieur Quashia, finally shows up, he cheerfully explains the shed-building project he’s working on as a surprise for them—a surprise that will send their expenses skyrocketing. But there are bigger problems to come than wild boars tearing through fences and other everyday challenges of farming. After a terrifying accident in Monte Carlo and a hospital stay, Michel is barely functional, and Carol soon realizes she must fend for herself. Burdened with problems from a financial reversal to the threat of nearby wildfires, she will experience firsthand the uncertainties that have plagued farmers since the dawn of agriculture—and hold on to hope that in the end, nature will provide. “A storyteller of great economy and deftness.” —The Telegraph



Hermitage, Olive Grove, Village

Author : Mary Busse

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 34,91 MB

Release : 2012-04-01

Category : Travel

ISBN : 9781469990514

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A French contemplative-travel feast. The provencal sun pours across the pages, as the reader is gently beckoned to bask in the creative challenges, deep peace, and immense joys of a contemplative orientation in the world--as seen through the lens of the author's Sabbatical season spent in a ravine-edged hermitage, embraced by an ancient olive grove, nestled within a Medieval French village in the Maritime Alps. Gifts for the reader abound in the exploration of such themes as presence, silence, simplicity, balance, community, generosity. This contemplative memoir celebrates the gift of sacred solitude (hermitage), the beauty of creation (olive grove), and the immense dignity of each life, human or animal (village.) With simple eloquence, the villagers themselves--through the daily humility, warm humor and integrity of their own lives--encourage readers to look within: to receive and rediscover, yet more deeply, the intrinsic beauty and profound gift of their own lives. With sensitive and compassionate brush-strokes, verbal paintings of village life emerge as such concepts as emptying and opening, dwelling in the Center, living in the "now" are encountered--not in a didactic way but rather in an attentive breathing-in of what each present moment offers. Cafe-table chats and sacramental altars are discovered, not as polarities, but as interconnected: the secular and the spiritual recognized as a mutually-embracing expression of the dance of Life and Beauty in the One Love--sustaining the soul and nourishing the heart.



The Olive Farm

Author : Carol Drinkwater

Publisher :

Page : 342 pages

File Size : 13,20 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Farms

ISBN : 9780349114743

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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 Appassionata and its wonderful olive-groved, sun-drenched world and its unlikely cast of characters.



The Olive Grove

Author : Eva Glyn

Publisher : HarperCollins UK

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 40,25 MB

Release : 2021-09-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0008453306

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A woman searching for a different future A man desperate to escape his past Can they find what they are looking for on the beautiful island of Korčula? 'I was fascinated, invested in each character, and I couldn't put it down.' Angela Petch, bestselling author of The Tuscan Secret



My Lemon Grove Summer

Author : Jo Thomas

Publisher : Headline

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 32,55 MB

Release : 2019-06-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1472246004

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'Rich, warm and sunny. A story that stays with you long after the last page is turned' Milly Johnson Could the lemon groves of Sicily be the perfect place to start over? The irresistible new novel from Jo Thomas, the author of Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard, will transport you to the island of mountains and sparkling blue seas. When life hands you lemons ... is it ever too late for a second chance? Zelda's impulsive nature has got her precisely nowhere up until now. A fresh start in a beautiful hilltop town in Sicily looking for new residents, together with her best friend Lennie, could be just what she needs. And who better to settle down with than the person who knows her best? But the sun-filled skies and sparkling seas can't hide the shadow hanging over Citta d'Ora, which means not everyone is pleased to see their arrival. The dreams Zelda and her fellow new residents had of setting up a new life might be slipping away. But a friendship with restauranteur Luca could be about to unlock the possibilities that lie in the local lemon groves. And there's a wedding on the horizon that might be just what the town needs to turn it around... Could a summer in Sicily help Zelda learn to trust her instinct and follow her heart?