Cold Comfort Farm »

Stella Gibbons (1902—1989) was born in London and was a journalist, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Her other novels include Nightingale Wood, Westwood, and Beside the Pearly Waters.

Lynne Truss is the author of The New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

“ Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.”
—Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition

THE DELIRIOUSLY ENTERTAINING Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times, London)—a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she finds a singularly miserable group in dire need of her particular talent— organization.

NPR's Morning Edition - Nancy Pearl

Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century.