Stella Gibbons’ novel, first published in 1932, blatantly parodied the doom-laden accounts of rural life as portrayed by DH Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, ...

Letters: S.C. Textiles, 'Cold Comfort'Listeners' comments include responses to a report on the South Carolina textile town of Lancaster and a warm memory of the novel Cold Comfort Farm.

Kenneth Williams reads Stella Gibbons’ wickedly funny send-up of the everyday life of country folk. Stella Gibbons’ novel, first published in 1932, blatantly parodied the doom-laden accounts of rural ...

Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London.