“The farm was crouched on a bleak hillside, whence its fields, fanged with flints, dropped steeply to the village of Howling a mile away. It is a world rather different to the one she was living in London. Her interest piqued Flora sets off for Cold Comfort Farm. Her cousin Judith Starkadder from Cold Comfort farm replies hinting darkly of an injustice done to her father – and how Flora should come and claim her rights. With this in mind she writes to all the candidates. While staying with a friend Mary in London Flora hatches a plan – to live off the kindness of one of the various relatives she has scattered around the country. I really rather love dear Flora Poste – interfering girl she may be – but she is very good at it.įor those who don’t know the story – Flora Poste finds herself at the age of twenty orphaned and without any visible means of earning a living. I did enjoy reading this one again – big relief – finding it gently funny and utterly charming. My month of re-reading therefore has given me the perfect excuse to read it again. Having read Christmas at Cold Comfort farm in December – short stories by Stella Gibbons, and then Starlight a few months later – this was a book that had found itself back on my TBR.

I remembered gulping down Cold Comfort Farm many years ago (early 90’s maybe) and thinking it hilarious. One of the dangers of re-reading something that you loved the first time around is that it doesn’t live up to the memory. The second book in my month of re-reading.

Christmas at cold comfort farm