A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time
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 novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
Very probably the funniest book ever written
*Sunday Times*
Screamingly funny and wildly subversive
*Guardian*
Delicious ... Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G.
Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop'
*Independent*
One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly
brilliant skit
*Guardian*
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