Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm is another classic English comedy, and a thoroughly enjoyable one at that. The plotting is clever, the characters are likeable, and the surprisingly romantic ending worked for me. There are some good running gags too, which had me sniggering.

Incidentally, this was clearly an influence on the peerless Round The Horne, what with the combination of suave urbanity and rural eccentricity. And wasn’t J.Peasemold Gruntfuttock a member of the Quivering Brethren? Where his wife sat on his right hand.