COLD COMFORT FARM by Stella Gibbons is our next book. I love it that I found a Roz Chaz cover illustration. (Click here to see detail.)In this classic of British humor, nineteen-year-old Flora Poste, whose only income is a small inheritance, decides that she would greatly prefer NOT to work, so writes distant relatives asking how they would like to have her (and her annual allowance) come to live with them.
With several offers in hand, Flora chooses the most eccentric of the lot, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, since she feels they will provide the most material for a novel she plans to write some day (perhaps when she turns 53) - a book she predicts will be as good as Jane Austen's PERSUASION.
The meeting will be Tuesday, September 2 at Kate's.
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