By Stella Gibbons
ISBN: 0-14-118265-2
First published 1932
233 pages
Cover image: Tony Stone Images
Publisher: Penguin Classics
7 / 5 Stars
A beautiful, beautiful book. There are eight happy endings within it.
In Flora Poste, the heroine, Stella Gibbons has created a comic character full of charm and sympathy. She rivals the greatest comic characters of Ignatius Jacques Reilly or Falstaff. The character plays the comedy straight which adds to the charm of the book.
In a deep dark farm in Sussex, Flora stays with her aunt and cousins.
And rescues them all. Elfine, Urk, Seth, Janet, Amos, Aunt Ada Doom, and herself.
It is the 1930’s and we are in the midst of a technological age – not down at the farm though. How will Flora’s London tastes do in this backwater? How will she cope, never having set foot on a farm before?
Read it and believe such books exist.
The Eclectic Book Review 