Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Flora Poste is
self-confident pragmatic well educated and sophisticated.
When she is orphaned at the age of twenty she decides that
her only choice is to go live with relatives. She is
staying temporarily with her friend Mary Smiling in London
who suggests that Flora find a job and get herself her own
place to live. Flora balks at this suggestion opting to
experience life and compile material for the book she will
write when she turns fifty three. Out of four choices she
decides that the gloomy Starkadders family at Cold Comfort
Farm is her best choice. Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an
English novelist journalist poet and short story writer.
Cold Comfort Farm her first novel was first published in
1932 and published by Penguin Books in 1938.