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The Olive Farm
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France | Carol Drinkwater
7 posts | 8 read | 6 to read
The first in Carol Drinkwater's bestselling series set on a Provencal olive farm. "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 from the garden and great steaming plates of food served from an al fresco kitchen and dished up on to a candlelit table the length of a railway sleeper..." When Carol Drinkwater and her partner Michel have the opportunity to buy 10 acres of disused olive farm in Provence, the idea seems absurd. After all, they don't have a lot of money, and they've only been together a little while. THE OLIVE FARM is the story of the highs and lows of purchasing the farm and life in Provence: the local customs and cuisine; the threats of fire and adoption of a menagerie of animals; the potential financial ruin and the thrill of harvesting their own olives - especially when they are discovered to produce the finest extra-virgin olive oil...
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SqueakyChu
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Next up! This book is Book One of a four-book memoirs series. Yes, it is a #BookCrossing book! 😃

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LauraBeth
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@SaraFair recommended this book to me two years ago. I finally started it this morning 😀

SaraFair Yay!! How did you remember that? Hope you like it. The beginning is slow, but you get a real feel for living in France I think. 6y
LauraBeth @Sarafair I try and write down book recommendations with a note on who recommended it into a notebook. I was flipping through it a few days ago and came across it! (edited) 6y
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Dragon
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#vegetables #junebookbugs. Thanks to Google, I now know olives are vegetables 🥒👍I was wracking my brains for this one.

Lynnsoprano Well, botanically they're a fruit, but so are a lot of other vegetables 😊 7y
Dragon Thanks @Lynnsoprano 👍😀📚🐉 7y
Dragon @Lynnsoprano I've seen all the Potato 🥔 Peel Pie photos and I'm a bit jealous of the potato's lack of ambiguity 💚 7y
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Dragon
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#alliteration #marchintoreading A Memoir of Life, Love , and Olive Oil. This banner on the cover has a lot of L's 👍🐉. Pizza 🍕 for supper tonight.

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Dragon
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#bookmarks #riotgrams #getindie. A favourite bookstore gives out these great bookmarks

LeahBergen I've been there. 😀 7y
RachelAmphlett I adore that series of books! 7y
Dragon Thanks @LeahBergen I was just there this weekend. 📚 7y
Dragon Thanks @RachelAmphlett I didn't realize it was a series 👍 7y
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namtab
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brilliant read

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Our thoughts are with our friends in Nice and France. May these terrible events stop happening. Love conquers hate. We stand with you💔

MrBook 😔 8y
LindaGrace812 So so horrible. 8y
KVanRead 💔 8y
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Bookhound1 I love Drinkwater's Olive series. ❤️💕 8y
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