Cold Comfort Farm"When the sukebind was in bud, the orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descended on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. There were plenty of them - Judith, alone in her grief; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; Elfine, who needed a little polish; and, of course, Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw something nasty in the woodshed. And Flora felt it incumbent upon her to bring order into chaos. First published in 1932, when it attracted considerable attention, Cold Comfort Farm is a classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period." -- |