![]() ![]() ![]() However, you should read Gibbons’ Prologue before you embark on this novel. There is nothing worse than someone giving away the nuances of the plot or highlighting the best passages of the work before you have even had the opportunity to sample it. These days I tend not to read introductions penned other than by the author. She even wrote a sequel, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, a short novel in which the farm becomes a conference centre and tourist attraction but though moderately successful, it has now sunk into obscurity. ![]() Indeed, her other works are so forgotten nowadays that asking anyone to name one would almost certainly generate a perfect Pointless score. And its success eclipsed anything else she produced during her career, much to her chagrin. Published in 1932 when Gibbons was working on the books pages of The Lady magazine, it was her first novel. The onset of senility, perhaps, or for all its brilliance is it that Gibbons’ masterpiece is more a triumph of style over substance? ![]() Although I had read this book many moons ago and knew that there had always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm and that Ada Doom had seen something nasty in the woodshed, I realised as I turned the pages, I couldn’t remember the plot. ![]()
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