In Gibbons classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at nineteen, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless, and the proprietors, the dour Starkadder family, are tyrannized by Flora s mysterious aunt, who controls the household from a locked room. Once there, she discovers they exist in a state of chaos and feels it is up to her to bring order. Flora s confident and clever management of an alarming cast of eccentrics is only half the pleasure of this novel. The other half is Gibbons wicked send up of romantic cliches, from the mad woman in the attic to the druidical peasants with their West Country accents and...
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2011-06-08
Betyg 
Jag tycker att den här historian var mycket torr och saknade helt en konfliktförlösning. Boktipset tippade på att jag skulle ge den en femma, och det var första gången den har haft komplett fel.
2010-06-07
Betyg 
Rolig och modern. Normalt klarar jag engelska bra men det var svårt att hänga med i vad de som tala med dialekt sa. Uppskattade ändå denna lättsamma och roande historia.
