Cold Comfort Farm

novel by Gibbons

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Cold Comfort Farm, comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932, a successful parody of regional and rural fiction by such early 20th-century English writers as Mary Webb and D.H. Lawrence. A popular and clever work, Cold Comfort Farm was awarded the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1933.

When Flora Poste visits her relatives in Sussex, she encounters a collection of rustic eccentrics enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming. She manages to set things right.

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