Career
Amongst many other film and television series, she has appeared in Stanley Kubrick"s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Queen Kong (1976), The Shout (1978), Father (1990), and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge"s novel An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant the late Alan Rickman. She has written a number of children"s books, including her first, The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series and film. Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence.
In 2013 Drinkwater worked on a series of five documentary films inspired by her two Mediterranean travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree.
The films were completed in February 2013 and have since been broadcast on international networks worldwide. In 2015 Penguin Books United Kingdom announced a deal signed with Drinkwater to write two epic novels.
The first, The Forgotten Summer, is due for publication at the beginning of 2016. The Illustrated Olive Farm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) shortlisted for Travel Book of the Year, Travel Press Awards 2009 Return To the Olive Farm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) My Story Series 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 Nowhere to Run (the story of a World World War II Jewish refugee), published 2 August 2012 Cadogan Square - a compilation of Suffragette and Twentieth-Century Girl August 2012 Other works.