But it’s actually great fun and even though I really had to push myself through the first bit in order to fully get what Ms Gibbons was about with this book, I found it very enjoyable once I let go a bit and let the book take me where it would! With Cold Comfort Farm its important to just go with the flow and believe, like Flora, that its not really so very outrageous once you think about it.
Cold Comfort Farm is a delightful parody on those dreadful rural tragedies (see Mary Webb) that portray farm life so pessimistically. The heroine is hard to like in the beginning, and throughout the novel she had me quite puzzled as she’s quite the snob and this is hard to take, but it really was a case of reluctant admiration for a character that could see the positive in everything and had a real ‘can do’ attitude.
The story follows the journey of newly-orphaned Flora Poste as she moves to the country in the hope of being taken in by her relatives, the Starkadders of Starkadder Farm. There she finds a mixture of characters, each with their own problems of which Flora is determined to fix – which she does to mixed success. Although it is, as I said, wacky – I do recommend this book, its fun and a really good book for a grey-day to make you laugh.
For those that like movies made from books, the 2003 version with Kate Beckinsale is very good too!
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