Carol Drinkwater 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

James Herriot

James Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight , an English veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinarian to write a series of books of stories about animals and their owners...

 books, All Creatures Great and Small

All Creatures Great and Small (TV serial)

All Creatures Great and Small is a popular British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.-Background:...

 (1978-85). She was a member of the National Theatre Company

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

 under the leadership of Lord Olivier and has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Bouquet of Barbed Wire is a British television series based on a 1969 novel by Andrea Newman. The series – whose title comes from an incident that occurred to Newman and her mother while on a walk – was made by London Weekend Television for ITV in 1976...

 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

Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...

. She also appeared in Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

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's A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...

 (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

Olive

The olive , Olea europaea), is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the...

 farm

Farm

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 in Provence

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

.

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 Orion Publishing Group
  Orion Publishing Group
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