{"product_id":"9780241951514-cold-comfort-farm","title":"Cold Comfort Farm","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSensible, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, \u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/i\u003e by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSensible, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the sukebind flowers, Flora takes each of the family in hand and brings order to their chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp and clever parody of the melodramatic and rural novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Very probably the funniest book ever written' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delicious . \u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm\u003c\/i\u003e has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's \u003ci\u003eScoop' Independent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the finest parodies written in English.a wickedly brilliant skit' Robert Macfarlane, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard. \u003c\/i\u003eHer first publication was a book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain Beast \u003c\/i\u003e(1930), and her first novel, \u003ci\u003eCold Comfort Farm \u003c\/i\u003e(1932), won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. Amongst her other novels are \u003ci\u003eMiss Linsey and Pa \u003c\/i\u003e(1936), \u003ci\u003eNightingale Wood\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), \u003ci\u003eWestwood \u003c\/i\u003e(1946), \u003ci\u003eConference at Cold Comfort Farm \u003c\/i\u003e(1949) and \u003ci\u003eBeside the Pearly Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1954). Stella Gibbons died in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449645314422,"sku":"9780241951514","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32396284.jpg?v=1760446288","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241951514-cold-comfort-farm","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}