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Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets 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. But Flora loves nothing better than to organize other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, "Cold Comfort Farm" (1932) is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.

MUSIC

If I Were a Boy - Beyonce

Hello Sunshine - Syd Matters

Whats Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner

Amber Waves - Tori Amos

Ode To My Family - Cranberries

Yes, Anastasia - Tori Amos

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

Coming up next week, Author Joe Dunthorne, to talk about his first and amazingly hilarious 'Submarine'.



Written by Muthamma Prasad
Posted in Book Club
3 Feb 2009



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