But while she’s improving the farm, she also improves the people there and that is not good. In the beginning she’s being the civilized women, but she changes as she gets to know the people on the farm. Flora wants to change the whole farm, tidy things up and bring order in the chaos. More people help on the farm but they’re not important to the story.ģ. She also knows about some problems the family had with Flora’s father, but that also stays a secret till the end. An other important person is Aunt Ada Doom, who said she ‘saw something in the shed’ but the book never tells what she actually saw there.

The only bull they have is called Big Buisness. Adam also milks Aimless, Feckless, Graceless and Pointless, the cows, every day. He is secretly in love with the soft and sweet Elfine, who seems very young to me. Then there are two half-brothers of Amos: Luke and Mark, and an old man named Adam Lamsbreath. Their children are Reuben, who’s life is the farm, and Seth, a young man who’s obsessed with girls and sex. Flora’s niece is Judith Starkadder, and her husband is a hell-fire-and-brimstone preacher, named Amos. On Cold Comfort Farm live a lot of people: there are 4 cousins, Micah, Urk, Caraway and Harkaway. She has to leave the man she’s in love with, Charles, but she doesn’t want to admit that. She chooses the Starkaddar family of her niece in Sussex, who lives on Cold Comfort Farm. Smilings says that she cannot live off her relatives, but Flora persists that she’ll live on her relatives. But Flora writes letters to her relatives in Scotland, Sussex and other areas in the UK, because she wants to live there and help with the house-keeping. Smilings thinks Flora should get a job and learn how to work, because she’s expensively educated with a lot of comforts. Flora stays the first days after her parents died with a friend, Mrs. The main-character in the book is Flora Poste. But nevertheless the book has and happy ending.ġ. It’s a pity that nobody gets to know the secrets in the book, so that’s an open end for me.

The story is full of humour and nonsense: I liked that very much. Sometimes the author wrote the text like the people in the book pronounce the words, with an accent. Some parts of the book were a bit weird, so I had to read them twice before I understood what was said. It was a very funny book, not difficult to read. The lid looked funny and after I had read the small text on the back of the book it seemed humorous and nice to me.ī. I had no idea what to choose so I looked at a list of popular English books and Cold comfort farm was on it. I was in the library and had to choose a book for this assignment. Title: Cold Comfort Farm, Penguin Books, London, 2000, 232 p.(1e print 1932, Great Britain)Ī.

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