Cold Comfort Farm

Stella, Gibbons

3.89

50,516 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 0141800992 ISBN 13: 9780141800998

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

When the sukebind is in bud, expensively educated and recently orphaned Flora Poste decides to descend on her relatives the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm, which she imagines will be awful in an interesting way. Her intuition proves accurate. There she discovers Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by God; Seth smouldering with sex; robust Reuben; Elfine, who needs a little polish; and, of course Great Aunt Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed. And Flora, with her freshness and optimism, takes it upon herself to bring order into chaos.

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Review:

Very probably the funniest book ever written

(Sunday Times)

Screamingly funny and wildly subversive (Marian Keyes Guardian)

Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop' (Independent)

One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit (Robert Macfarlane Guardian)

About the Author:

STELLA GIBBONS was born in London in 1902. As well as writing novels, Stella Gibbons wrote poems and short stories. Her other novels include MISS LINSEY AND PA, THE SNOW WOMAN and THE WOODS IN WINTER. Her COLLECTED POEMS appeared in 1950. She died in 1989.

EILEEN ATKINS has worked extensively on the London stage and in film and television. She played the role of Judith Starkadder, in the BBC film of COLD COMFORT FARM.

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