Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Mystery
Series
Olive
The Olive Farm (2001)
The Olive Season (2003)
A Celebration of Olives (2004)
The Olive Harvest (2004)
The Illustrated Olive Farm (2005)
The Olive Route (2005)
The Olive Tree (2006)
Return to the Olive Farm (2010)
The Olive Farm (2001)
The Olive Season (2003)
A Celebration of Olives (2004)
The Olive Harvest (2004)
The Illustrated Olive Farm (2005)
The Olive Route (2005)
The Olive Tree (2006)
Return to the Olive Farm (2010)
Novels
The Haunted School (1986)
An Abundance of Rain (1989)
Akin to Love (1991)
Mapping the Heart (1993)
Because You're Mine (2001)
The Only Girl in the World (2014)
The Forgotten Summer (2016)
The Lost Girl (2017)
The House on the Edge of the Cliff (2019)
An Act of Love (2021)
An Abundance of Rain (1989)
Akin to Love (1991)
Mapping the Heart (1993)
Because You're Mine (2001)
The Only Girl in the World (2014)
The Forgotten Summer (2016)
The Lost Girl (2017)
The House on the Edge of the Cliff (2019)
An Act of Love (2021)
Novellas
The Girl in Room Fourteen (2013)
Hotel Paradise (2014)
A Simple Act of Kindness (2015)
The Love of a Stranger (2017)
Hotel Paradise (2014)
A Simple Act of Kindness (2015)
The Love of a Stranger (2017)
Series contributed to
My Story
The Hunger (2001)
Twentieth Century Girl (2001)
Suffragette (2003)
Cadogan Square (2012)
Nowhere to Run (2012)
The Hunger (2001)
Twentieth Century Girl (2001)
Suffragette (2003)
Cadogan Square (2012)
Nowhere to Run (2012)
Non fiction
Carol Drinkwater recommends

Mr Peacock's Possessions (2018)
Lydia Syson
"Mr Peacock's Possessions is a wonderful book, full of drama, courage and aspirations. The language is rich and the characters so humanely drawn."
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