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Cold comfort farm author5/10/2023 ![]() One of Flora’s letters is from Mr Mybug, the pseudo-intellectual poseur she encountered all those years ago whose favourite theory was that Branwell Brontё had written Wuthering Heights. The post had just arrived, and the family party were occupied in reading its letters. ![]() ![]() The nose retained its classic elegance the work she seldom thought of nowadays, for Flora had five children. Flora, it may be remembered, had been Flora Poste noted for the straightness of her nose and the efficacy of her restorative work at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex. On a sunny morning in the midst of the Second Dark Ages, Flora and Charles Fairford were seated at breakfast on the vicarage overlooking the Regent’s Park where they had lived since Charles’s ordination thirteen years ago. The opening of the book is just so evocative of all the qualities I love in middlebrow mid 20th century fiction, Flora is now married to vicar Charles Fairford, living in London & the mother of five children. Sixteen years have passed since Flora Poste, Robert Poste’s Child, arrived at Cold Comfort Farm to sort out the lives of the Starkadder family. My copy of the sequel, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, arrived on Friday & I settled down last Saturday afternoon to read it. Vintage are reprinting several novels by Stella Gibbons, author of one of my favourite books, Cold Comfort Farm. ![]()
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