Return to the Olive Farm

Description

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 homecoming celebrations are overshadowed by disturbing discoveries. The plight of the honey bee has become an international crisis and Carol is faced with unsettling news about the hives on her own olive farm. While the multinational companies are pushing for 'bigger, better, bumper' crops, a small band of farmers and ecologists are calling for a halt to many of the modern farming malpractices that are endangering the planet. Carol is amongst them. But it puts her own farm, her idyll, under threat. At what point do you turn your back on all that you believe in and all that you have been fighting for?

Actress Carol Drinkwater is 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, The Olive Farm series. She is currently working with UNESCO on a lavish documentary series inspired by THE OLIVE ROUTE and THE OLIVE TREE.

A passionate book about confronting difficult environmental issues * GOOD BOOK GUIDE * A spellbinding memoir * CHOICE * Drinkwater is a rare writer who tackles other people brilliantly...Vibrant, intoxicating and heart-warming * SUNDAY EXPRESS * One cannot resist Drinkwater's courage and joie de vivre, nor the enormous appetite and enthusiasm for her subject -- Wendy Holden * DAILY MAIL * The new leader of the pack * THE TIMES * She writes so well you can almost smell the sun-baked countryside * BELLA * Beautifully written with a great sense of humour, it captures perfectly the dreamy atmosphere of the South of France and its people * WOMAN & HOME * I found this the most absorbing of Carol Drinkwater's reports from her Provence Olive Farm, a sink or swim account of attempting to free the farm and its inhabitants from the dangerous chemicals needed to bring an Olive crop to fruition. -- Sue Baker * LOVEREADING.CO.UK * A passionate book about confronting difficult environmental issues. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *