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Description
Flora Poste, orphaned at twenty, decides to go and live with her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm. Once there she discovers they exist in a state of chaos and feels it is up to her to bring order. From the author of LIGHT AND EASY.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Flora Poste: Protagonist.
- Seth Starkadder: Over-sexed young man. Obsessed with the movies.
- Ada Doom: Owner of Cold Comfort Farm. Has a tight grip upon extend family.
- Elfine Starkadder: Seth's intellectual sister who prefers to be outdoors.
Memorable Quotes
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“I saw something nasty in the woodshed!”
Ada Doom
First Sentence
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Stella Gibbons (Author)
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