Cold Comfort Farm

from Yggie

This book made me laugh out loud while I was reading it in a cafe, so 4 stars for that. I loved how it reminded me of Wuthering Heights and thoroughly poked fun at the entire genre. My inner raging feminist had some trouble with the 'taming' of Elfine, but in general, a great weird awkward funny ...

from burritapal

Funny little satire about an orphan who, looking for relatives to stay with, chooses her cousins at Cold Comfort Farm. Every one of them is neurotic and soaking up the cold comfort that oozes from every corner of the farm. Being a sensible, practical person, she endeavors to fix up the place and ...

from ncgraham

"I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot." - Flora Poste, Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm seems to be one of those books you either love or hate. I know some people who think it one of the greatest comic novels in the English language; others find it ba...

from LizzieD

I don't think that this is the funniest book ever written as claimed by a blurb from the back cover of my copy, but it is funny. Not having read Mary Webb perhaps prevents my getting all the fun, but I've read enough Hardy to appreciate Gibbons's efforts. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19 and being a s...

from rainpebble

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons; 4 1/2 stars This story is such a hoot. I can't believe that I put off the reading of it for so very long. It's the story of a young British lady, Flora, whose parents have died and she only has one hundred pounds a year so she must find a relative to take her ...