“I saw something nasty in the woodshed!”
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is an hilarious 1930s novel about Flora Post, a young woman with no useful skills but a strong desire for tidiness. She goes to live with the very untidy Starkadder family at Cold Comfort Farm.
Aunt Ada Doom comes downstairs twice a year for ‘The Counting’
This book includes such quotable lines as, “I saw something nasty in the woodshed”, “There’s always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm” and “There’ll be no butter in hell!”
The film of the same name is perhaps the best book to movie adaptation I know of! Mystery, melodrama, humour and fun characters make this a relaxing and enjoyable read as it pokes fun at the dark melodramas of the late 1800s.