Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm

Comic novel of a woman bringing order to chaos in a dysfunctional farming family

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Stella Gibbons
Stella Gibbons

Gibbons wrote Cold Comfort Farm as a brilliant parody of the rustic novel tradition of Hardy, Webb, and Sheila Kaye-Smith, creating a comic masterpiece that has never lost its freshness. Her later novels are more straightforwardly achieved.

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