The Olive Season: Amour, A New Life, and Olives, Too!

✍ Scribed by Drinkwater, Carol

• Book ID: 108979551
• Publisher: The Overlook Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 477 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781468308716

✦ Synopsis

In The Olive Season, Carol Drinkwater's much-anticipated follow-up to The Olive Farm, Carol and Michel prepare to exchange vows in, of all places, Polynesia--Michel's answer to Carol's challenging response to his marriage proposal (Only if the ceremony isUpon their return to the south of France as husband and wife, they find there is much hope--and work--to greet them. With a farm consisting of fifty trees producing some of the world's finest olive oil, no longer is the challenge one of restoring the farm but in charting its development and growth. France's rigorous agricultural standards are responsible for some of the world's best produce but also for one of its most infuriating bureaucracies. In order to obtain the coveted AOC rating, Carol and Michel are forced to both expand their farm and to negotiate a Byzantine world of forms, officials, and inspections, including the surveying of their land by a water diviner, who, via a power akin to extrasensory...