Cold Comfort Farm- Stella Gibbons

One of the best-loved comic novels and yet often forgotten!

Sophisticated and strong willed Flora is orphaned at 19. With her usual common sense she decides to descend upon unknown relatives in rural Sussex. Cue Flora’s hilarious attempts to ‘organise’ her relatives, the doomed Starkadders.

Cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years- all fall victim to Flora’s plans in this hilarious, charming parody of rural life.