Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'.

Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on* Mail on Sunday *
Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century * Lynne Truss *
Most of us wish we knew a real Flora Poste who could put straight our pretzeled lives -- Julie Birchill * Sunday Times *

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. Among 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.

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ISBN 13	9780099528685
ISBN 10	0099528681
Title	Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Author	Stella Gibbons
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2011-08-04
Number of pages	176
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