If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, also available in Penguin Classics. The Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. 'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, Guardian A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time. Not ordering to the United States Click here.

Expected delivery to the United States in 6-11 business days. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. Cold Comfort Farm 3.89 (48,209 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Penguin Essentials English By (author) Stella Gibbons US9.94 US13.00 You save US3.06 Free delivery worldwide Available. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. 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. When Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932, at least one reviewer was convinced that Stella Gibbons must be a pseudonym for the male novelist.

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

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