No Butter In Hell
Cold Comfort Farm (Cold Comfort Farm, volume 1)
By Stella Gibbons

6 Feb, 2025
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Stella Gibbons’ 1932 Cold Comfort Farm is a comic science fiction (if only just) novel. It is the first of Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm works.
Orphaned shortly after the Anglo-Nicaraguan War of 1946, young Flora Poste discovers that her negligent parents have left her a meager inheritance of just one hundred pounds per year1. Having little taste for work, Flora has but one option: find a suitable relative off whom to sponge.
Alas, Flora’s selection of relatives is dismal. In the end, she settles for the Starkadders, who live on Cold Comfort Farm, in darkest Sussex, not far from Howling. Not the most promising of destinations. Flora can only hope there isn’t a Seth or a Reuben Starkadder.