This is a glorious collection of stories from the author of "Cold Comfort Farm". The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and some good Starkadder table talk over. Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: "Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!"
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Stella 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 publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny short story, and here's a cheap way to read it,
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This review is from: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (Hardcover)
You can find "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" in the wonderful collection "Virago Book of Christmas"-and it is what you might expect of the Starkadders-this is before their transformation by Miss Poste.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Collection of Varied Stories,
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Fans of COLD COMFORT FARM, one of the funniest and most likeable books of the twentieth century, may think they have stumbled upon another great tale of Starkadder depravity. While the title story does concern the Starkadders before the arrival of Flora Poste, and does therefore contain its requisite amount of Cold Comfort weirdness, the story is hardly a classic. It's for Cold Comfort completists only. The other stories are a very mixed lot, some only slice-of-life vignettes.The three star rating is problematic. There is nothing wrong with the writing as such, or the presentation. It's unfair to star it down because it isn't another COLD COMFORT FARM; but no one should be under the impression that that's what they're getting. Stella Gibbons is simply in that awkward situation of being a diligently professional writer who wrote one great classic and a lot that is mundane -- including several of these stories. "Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm" is not even a good Christmas story, as such. It's merely there, like a faded sukebind. It provides the urge but it's ultimately disappointing. By no means should Christmas be read before COLD COMFORT, even though its events (such as they are) do precede CCF.
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