The first, The Forgotten Summer, is due for publication at the beginning of 2016. In 2015 Penguin Books United Kingdom announced a deal signed with Drinkwater to write two epic novels. The films were completed in February 2013 and have since been broadcast on international networks worldwide. 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. Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence. 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. 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.
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