Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948 in London) is an Anglo-Irish actress and author, best known for her award-winning portrayal of Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books, All Creatures Great and Small (1978-85). She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Lord Olivier and has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet. Drinkwater won a Critics Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow. She also appeared in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971).

She has written a number of children's books, including The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series and film for Disney and won the Chicago Film Festival Gold Award for Children's Films. Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence.

Bibliography

The Olive Series

• The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France
• The Olive Season: Amour, a New Life and Olives Too
• The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Life and Olives in the South of France
• A Celebration of Olives (a compilation of The Olive Farm and The Olive Season)
• The Illustrated Olive Farm
• The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
• The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves (shortlisted for Travel Book of the Year, Travel Press Awards 2009)
• Return To the Olive Farm

My Story

• The Hunger: The Diary of Phyllis McCormack, Ireland, 1845-1847
• Suffragette: The Diary of Dollie Baxter, London 1909-1913
• Twentieth Century Girl: Diary of Flora Bonnington London 1899-1900

Other Works

• An Abundance of Rain
• Akin to Love
• Because You're Mine
• Crossing the Line: Young Women Talk About Being in Trouble with the Law
• The Haunted School
• Mapping the Heart
• Molly
• Molly on the Run

External links

• Official website
• Carol Drinkwater at the Internet Movie Database
• Carol Drinkwater at the Orion Publishing Group website