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Synopsis
'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm…'
Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When s read more
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In Gibbons's classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into th read more
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Cold Comfort Farm is a wildly funny parody of D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, and the Bronte sisters stark portrayal of country living. Having been orphaned at age 19 Flora Poste is forced to move to Cold Comfort Farm to live read more
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What better place to spend the holidays than Cold Comfort Farm?
Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story read more
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About The Author:
Stella Gibbons was an English novelist, a journalist, a poet, and a short story writer. José C. Vales is a translator.
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Sixteen years after she last set foot in the picturesque village of Howling, Flora Poste—the disobedient yet charming protagonist of Cold Comfort Farm—returns to the fray to help her relatives, the troubled Starkadd read more
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Key Note: A Christmas treat from a treasured comic writer
Key Features
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Key Note: A Christmas treat from a treasured comic writer
Key Features
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Keynote
A wickedly funny and charming sequel to the much loved Cold Comfort Farm
About the Book: Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Robert Poste’s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the far read more
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Keynote
A compelling tale of social misfits told with Gibbons' trademark humour and affection.
About the Book: Starlight
Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage read more
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Keynote
A delightful tale of wartime romance and friendship
About the Book: Westwood
Set in wartime Highgate, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is 'not the ty read more
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