Gibbons's novelistic debut tells how the self-possessed Flora Poste, orphaned at 19 by indifferent parents, decides to plant herself on her remote relatives the Starkadders, occupants of Cold Comfort Farm in darkest Sussex.įlora comes to Cold Comfort with a mission to bring order and happiness to their messy personal lives. Cold Comfort Farm was an assured, sophisticated, risque literary satire-scarcely the province of a young female editorial assistant on the ultra-respectable Lady magazine. When Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932, at least one reviewer was convinced that 'Stella Gibbons' must be a pseudonym for the male novelist Evelyn Waugh.
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