Cold Comfort Farm

The story tells of Flora Poste, a smart, sophisticated young woman from London- rather like Stella herself- who goes to live with some strange relations in Sussex that she had never seen before, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. The Starkadders are a mad, violent lot, very rustic in a sort of doom laden Hardyesque kind of way, and Flora sets out to tidy up their very untidy lives. The book tells how she eventually succeeds in doing so, against all the odds and with many comic incidents on the way.