num_pages: 233
description: Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.
language: English
title: Cold Comfort Farm
titlecomplete: Cold Comfort Farm
characters: Flora Poste
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Literature, Comedy, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 49330
places: Sussex, England, Howling, Sussex, England, England
series: Cold Comfort Farm
awards: awardedAt: -1136044800000
name: Prix Femina - Vie Heureuse
publisher: Penguin Classics