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Our orphaned heroine, Flora Poste, descends on her only livingrelatives - the Starkadders, who scratch a living at Cold ComfortFarm, ruled by their tyrannical Great-Aunt Ada Doom, who once“saw something narsty in the woodshed...” and won’t ever letanyone forget it.
The farm is bleak, chaotic and dirty - but Flora, ‘expensively,athletically and lengthily educated’, strides into the melee,determined as always to restore order, arrange marriages andcast some light into their darkness. This she does, to great comic effect.
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