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The Girl in Room Fourteen (Kindle Single) [Kindle Edition]

Carol Drinkwater
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)

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Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams, pies, lemonades, sold on her stall at the internationally famous Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. Tourists travel from everywhere to meet her.

But Cecile is a woman who no one draws close to, a woman with a secret.

Cecile, when she was nineteen and a shy student, travelled south to a lemon festival on the borders of Italy and France. She was intending to let her hair down, to enjoy two crazy weeks of fun. She was not anticipating the enigmatic Italian who offered her a future beyond her wildest dreams. But at what cost?

The Girl in Room Fourteen is a heartrending love story set on the warm shores of the Mediterranean.

Carol Drinkwater is a multi-award winning actress who is best known for her portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC television series, All Creatures Great and Small.

Carol is the author of twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, and has achieved bestselling status, over a million copies sold worldwide, with her series of memoirs set on an Olive Farm in the south of France.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 191 KB
  • Print Length: 47 pages
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00F8GP5O2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (162 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #508 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Anglo-Irish actress Carol Drinkwater is perhaps still most familiar to audiences for her award-winning portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. A popular and acclaimed author and film-maker as well, Carol has published nineteen books for both the adult and young adult markets. She is currently at work on her twentieth title.
When she purchased a rundown property overlooking the Bay of Cannes in France, she discovered on the grounds sixty-eight, 400-year-old olive trees. Once the land was reclaimed and the olives pressed, Carol along with her French husband, Michel, became the producers of top-quality olive oil. Her series of memoirs, love stories, recounting her experiences on her farm (The Olive Farm, The Olive Season, The Olive Harvest and Return to the Olive Farm) have become international bestsellers. Carol's fascination with the olive tree extended to a seventeenth-month, solo Mediterranean journey in search of the tree's mythical secrets. The resulting travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree, have inspired a five-part documentary films series entitled The Olive Route.

Carol has also been invited to work with UNESCO to help fund an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean with the dual goals of creating peace in the region and honouring the ancient heritage of the olive tree.


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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Intriguing love story set in the South of France ; the perfect antidote to a cold wet day in London spent on public transport. Didn't want it to end.... What a treat for 99 pence!
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful read 19 Sep 2013
By Helosm
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A wonderful read, not the sort of book I usually read, but thoroughly enjoyed it. With the very evocative descriptions, I almost felt as though I was there. Would definitely recommend that you get this book in your kindle.
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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Girl in Room Fourteen. 20 Sep 2013
By Cuechip
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As an avid reader of Carol's books i was straight into this short story of a woman who had loved and lost. Carol's unique description of the Cote d' Azure brings the warmth of the sun to your soul.
Cecile was a Lemon farmer who sells her wares come rain or shine in daily in the market in Cannes. She is a celebrated figure who features in many tourist guides but chooses to keep herself to herself and not partake in the post market lunches with other stall holders. She returns home to her estate and her 16 year old daughter.
Cecile has a secret yearning to be reunited with her daughters father and waits patiently for him to return to her and live the life that they had planned.
Read for yourself how the story unfolds. You will not be dissapointed.
I could not put it down until i had read it all.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Carol has triumphed again!! 20 Sep 2013
By Jocelyn
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Bought it, read it, loved it!! Reading it again!! Carol never disappoints, with her wonderful books, full of atmosphere, as a lover of South of France I can almost be back there again!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Written 23 Sep 2013
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Get the olives out, and the wine, sit yourself down when you know you won't be interrupted for 90 minutes or so, and get lost in this delightful tale.

A lovely story which, from the start, takes you into Cecile's world and the market in Cannes. It is so well written that you hardly notice you are actually reading, you become involved in the characters and the book plays in your head like a small film taking you along as a spectator.

I loved this book and read it in two sittings, the lovely thing about The Girl in Room Fourteen is that it will appeal to all ages and all genres. A simple story with a big impact.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Love Story of Cecile and Roberto 22 Sep 2013
Format:Kindle Edition
"For fourteen years, Madame Cecile Berri had been presiding over her lemon stall at the Forville market in the French Riviera city of Cannes." So begins the wonderful love story of Cecile and Roberto. Although this story is told from the third person point of view..Cecile's..Carol Drinkwater's ability to describe emotions, landscape, and setting make us imagine that this is a first person narrative. It is Cecile's story. I read it in one sitting, and could well see this as a film. The South of France setting as described by Ms. Drinkwater, is indeed a "perfumed paradise." I loved this story, as I have all of Carol Drinkwater's books. My only complaint is that I wanted the story to continue, and I can only hope that she will continue the adventures of Cecile and her daughter, Donatella: perhaps this time in Italy.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Happy Reader 30 Sep 2013
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When I bought this book I didn't realise it was a quick read, but probably my fault for not noticing this. Saying that, I enjoyed the story and the way it was written.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful 29 Sep 2013
By Mari
Format:Kindle Edition
Every book Carol writes make the reader want to move to the South of France, this book is no exception.
I read this beautifully written book one evening and wanted to pack my bags, change my career and move!

It is a beautiful beautiful love story set in the South of France -it's an emotionally written book of love and loss - we enter Cecile's world, we breath her every day, we feel her every emotion, we love her separate life in Menton. It's a fabulous story and there is definitely a sequel.......
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I was there
Love all Carol's books and this a novel I downloaded to read on holiday in Barbados, I loved the story and Carol's descriptions of the South of France made me feel I was there... Read more
Published 1 hour ago by Christine Bush
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
A bit too short for a great read. An interesting story of misbegotten love how women can deal with this and a good if not continued ending.
Published 15 hours ago by Reading flower
2.0 out of 5 stars The Girl in Room Fourteen
I could not believe how short this book was. Not much of a story and over too quickly. Tom it as a holiday read but really disappointed
Published 1 day ago by marjorie smith
1.0 out of 5 stars Love story with a difference
I found The Girl in Room Fourteen to be a hauntingly beautiful love story.I would have liked a little detail as to how Cecile restored the farm house and built up her business all... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Jennifer McIvor
4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant, easy read
A nice read for my commute with a sweet, if slightly sad storyline.
I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys somehting light-hearted.
Published 17 days ago by Jenny FitzGerald
3.0 out of 5 stars Short story
Yes, this is a very short story. I had just settled into Carol Drinkwater's comfy style of writing and was enjoying the story when it was all over.
Published 22 days ago by V Phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect afternoon read
Carol Drinkwater proves again what an accomplished writer she is by created a couples love and dreams in the space of a novella. Read more
Published 26 days ago by Stephen McCarthy
2.0 out of 5 stars rubbish
A very disappointing read. The story lacks any substance and the characters are two dimensionally described. What a shame, as the premise is promising
Published 27 days ago by Ally3000
2.0 out of 5 stars Not real
I might have enjoyed it more if it had been longer with more substance without detail about the work she did it didn't make sense.
Published 1 month ago by dorothy kivell
1.0 out of 5 stars Pointless drivel
If this were a paperback I would say it was a waste of a good tree...

Cliched, predictable storyline, unengaging characters, badly written - nothing at all in favour of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kentish Woman
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