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Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin)
by Stella Gibbons

Published: 2011-04-07
Mass Market Paperback : 240 pages
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'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 ...
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'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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  "Cold Comfort Farm"by Linda S. (see profile) 05/11/11

A light-hearted parody of overly dramatic, angst-filled rural novels. Recently orphaned nineteen year old Flora goes to stay with her backwater relatives on their farm, with the intent of "tidying up"... (read more)

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