There’s plenty of emotions, despair and scheming – until Flora, who can’t abide untidiness, decides that this state of affairs won’t do, and starts to put things right with unexpected consequences. Mybug, a self-styled writer and passionately in love with Flora. And of course, there’s the dashing neighbour at Hawk-Monitor Hall and Mr. She chooses to move in with her country cousins, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm: Judith, alone with her grief and Tarot cards Amos, called by God to preach hellfire to the Quivering Brethren twice a week Elfine, who feels that an eccentric dress style and poetry go very well together Seth, positively smouldering with sex appeal Rueben, firmly convinced that Flora’s mission in life is to steal the farm away from him and Great Aunt Ada Doom – who saw something nasty in the woodshed.
Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite – expensively, athletically and lengthily educated – is peculiarly rich in relatives…and a lot of them are peculiar. She lives in Brighton.A wickedly satirical portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Books by Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm Nightingale Wood The Bachelor Conference At Cold Comfort Farm The Matchmaker. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. Judge Gibbons asked whether the sole job duty of that group is to collect money, saying it seems as if the attorneys are acting as 'collectors.' Stella began to disagree, and again Judge Gibbons. Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933.
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London in 1902.
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