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Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
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Description for Cold Comfort Farm
Paperback.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. 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. But Flora loves ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241418895
SKU
9780241418895
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stella Gibbons
Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm ... Read more
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