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Book SynopsisStella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the
Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are
Nightingale Wood (1938),
The Bachelor (1944),
Westwood (1946), and
Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
Trade ReviewVery probably the funniest book ever written
* Sunday Times *
Screamingly funny and wildly subversive -- Marian Keyes * Guardian *
Delicious ...
Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P. G. Wodehouse and the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh's
Scoop' * Independent *
One of the finest parodies written in English...a wickedly brilliant skit -- Robert Macfarlane * Guardian *
