Cold Comfort Farm [antikvár]

COLD COMFORT FARM Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex is the home of the Starkadder family, and when Flora Poste, their young cousin, decides to go and live with them, she is rather afraid of what she will find there. She knows that people who live on farms in Sussex are bound to be deeply unhappy. They are usually simple country people, close to the earth, working in muddy fields and smelly cowsheds. They are moody, quarrelsome, and confused. It is always raining, and nobody ever laughs. Pier cousins at Cold Comfort Farm meet all her expectations, and more. The Starkadders quarrel and fight, are miserable most of tbe time, and their farmyard is foul-smelling and dirty. And they are all peculiar in different ways - Amos about religion, Judith about her son Setb, Reuben about his muddy fields, Elfine about her poetry. Worst of all, ancient Aunt Ada Doom can never forget that she saw something nasty in the woodshed when she was two. Flora, however, is cheerful, efficient, and full of common sense. She disapproves strongly of unhappiness {'so unnecessary') and smelly cowsheds ('so disgusdng'). She also has great determination, and the Starkadders have a few surprises coming to them .