Born of affluent parents and blessed with a sound education, Flora finds herself orphaned in her twentieth year, when both her parents die during the annual epidemic of Spanish flu. The story centres around the adventures of city-bred, sophisticated Flora Poste. If I were to describe Cold Comfort Farm in a single word, suitable descriptions might be: parody, satire and melodrama. It was cold, there was no comfort and it was extremely raw. I expected the same soft, dulcet toned storyline but I was quite surprised with the strangeness of Cold Comfort Farm. I was naturally very eager to read more Gibbons and so all my bookish friends recommended ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ to me. It was such a romantic, Cinderella-like story and so intelligently written. This was my second experience with reading Stella Gibbons, the first book being Nightingale Wood.
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