Stuck wondering what to do now that her parents are gone, Flora rejects the suggestion of her friend, Mrs Smiling, that she move to London and “learn how to work” (Chapter II). The book’s central character is Flora Poste, a recently orphaned young woman with time on her hands. If not – well, hopefully one of my lovely readers will help me out. Lest I show my ignorance (or my poor sense of humour, often inclined to the banana-peel school of comedy, if I’m honest, despite my best efforts to cultivate it), I put off writing anything about it.īut Cold Comfort Farm is a strange book, and I hope that writing a little bit about it will allow me to puzzle it through. The reason I didn’t know whether to write a review or not was probably because I didn’t know what to make of the book itself. Considering it has been dubbed “Probably the funniest book ever written”, and emerged in the period of inestimable comic talents like P.G. It piqued my interest because I’d read about it in Samantha Ellis’ How To Be A Heroine, and thought it sounded fantastic. Frankly, I wasn’t sure whether to write a review of Cold Comfort Farm.
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