Cold Comfort Farm
Author(s): Stella Gibbons
'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.'
Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm. There is Judith in a scarlet shawl, heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, Judith's two sons; and there is Amos, preaching fire and damnation to one and all. As the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos.
Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel.
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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
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin UK
- : 0.128
- : 01 May 2011
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Stella Gibbons
- : Stella Gibbons
- : Paperback
- : 1106
- : 1106
- : English
- : 823/.912