![]() ![]() It was right around Christmas when she told me this, so for some bizarre reason I associate this book with Christmas. ![]() This book was recommended to me about a year ago by my friend Kim, who likened it to one of my short stories (also a satire). That description is just a tiny glimpse of the satire that is Cold Comfort Farm. Flora is not one for chaos and disorder, however, and she’s determined on reshaping Cold Comfort Farm. Because Aunt Ada “saw something nasty in the woodshed” as a child, she has gone mad and threatens to get worse if any of the Starkadders leave the farm. The farm supposedly has a curse on it, and all the Starkadders who live there are constrained by the elderly matron of the family, Aunt Ada Doom. She doesn’t want to work – why work if you can easily live off others? – so she sets out to mooch off her extended family until she decides to marry, which will, of course, settle her financially for life! She is welcomed to join her distant cousins the Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm, where everything’s a little bit off. ![]() ![]() Nineteen year old Flora Poste has just been orphaned. ![]()
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