But right now, I just couldn’t handle it. When that happens, I’ll come back to it, back to the Starkadders (who comes up with these names? Oh, wait–the English), come back to a bunch of cows with names like Feckless, Graceless, and other -lesses, and swarthy men that make women swoon with all their hairy manliness…. Maybe someday when I’m older, wiser, more mature…and can handle satire rooted in 1930s England. Cold Comfort Farm Paperback Januby Stella Gibbons (Author) 2,227 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle from 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.99 12 Used from 6.27 13 New from 19.71 Paperback 6.45 18 Used from 2.74 1 New from 9. And she could always write a novel about it. She DOES have a one hundred pounds a year income, for what it’s worth…but living on a farm in the middle of nowhere sounds more interesting. It’s a satire about 19-year old orphan Flora Poste who decides to go live with her distant relatives (or something) instead of getting a job and becoming a productive member of society. As part of this year’s UK Reading Challenge, I tried to read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
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