Book description
Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not
well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with
Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate'
and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked
in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'.
Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious
International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl'
Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine
Thump.
And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All
the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female
cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible
Flora decides to take the situation in hand.
Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North
London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College,
London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the
Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels,
three volumes of short-stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first
publication was a book of poems
The Mountain Beast
(1930) and her first novel
Cold Comfort Farm
(1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her works are
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
(1940)
Westwood
(1946),
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
(1959) and
Starlight
(1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in
1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one
daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
