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When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides to descend on her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm and put their lives in order. A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century, the Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Ly...

A }Classics{ edition of the rural comedy melodrama enjoyed across generations. Flora, orphaned at nineteen, heads to Sussex to stay with a severe set of relatives. She resolves to help each of them beack to the straight-and-narrow. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ......

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday Times 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 Com...