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Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons
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Description for Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
Paperback. Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled 'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'.
Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group - a group made up of the 'sadistic owl' Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump.
And worst of all, there are no Starkadders ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099528685
SKU
V9780099528685
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99-98
About Stella Gibbons
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Conference at Cold Comfort Farm
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
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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
... Read more