Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The very meddlesome main character seems to have her hand in everyone’s business yet never seems to get the comeuppance she truly deserves.
Considered a comic novel, I found it quite the opposite although it is supposed to be poking fun at similar novels of its time. No chuckling at this end.
Flora Poste is the main character who finds herself in a precarious financial position when her parents die leaving her orphaned at 19. After living with a wealthy friend who urges her to seek employment, she instead looks up some long lost relatives and moves in to their Cold Comfort farm, turning all of its occupants on their heads.
The enigmatic Aunt Ada Doom never leaves her room yet still maintains a stronghold on all members of the farm. She insinuates herself to be a trauma victim due to something nasty she saw in the shed as a child. What she saw, frustratingly, is never revealed. Flora has plans for her liberation that shock all.
Flora’s cousin Judith is quite religious and overly attached to her son, Seth. She is quite concerned with the sins of those around her which Flora interprets as a mental defect to which, of course, she has a remedy.
Quotes:
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit…
Gibbons seemed fascinated with the Bronte sisters as well as with their lesser known brother Branwell so perhaps I would steer our conversation in that direction and pray for her impartiality with a novice such as I.
My rating for Cold Comfort Farm is a 7 out of 10.
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Next up…Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
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