![]() ![]() A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, Cold Comfort Farm (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. ![]() Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness Amos, preaching fire and damnation their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben child of nature Elfine and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. Publishing Info: Penguin Classics, October 2006 (First Published in September 1932)īook Description from Goodreads: ‘I saw something nasty in the woodshed’ ![]() So feel free to read along with us or use our book selections and questions in your own bookclub! Book: “Cold Comfort Farm” by Stella Gibbons We’ll also post the next book coming up in bookclub. Our current theme is “Books with Movie Adaptations.”įor this blog, we will post a joint review of each book we read for bookclub. Each “season” (we’re nerds) we pick a theme and each of us chooses a book within that theme for us all to read. We are part of a group of librarian friends who have had an ongoing bookclub running for the last year and a half. ![]()
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