Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.

I finally got around to reading this after it sat on my TBR pile for far too long. It says on the back that it is "hilarious". Maybe in 1932 it was, but I think the parody aspect is a little lost these days.
Nevertheless, it was a lot more light-hearted than I was anticipating, and there are a few amusing moments, such as the names given to the cows. Feckless, Graceless, Pointless and Aimless.
I was hoping we would find out what Aunt Ada Doom saw in the woodshed that was nasty all those years ago, but alas it remains a mystery.

Taking to the October meet-up.

Picked up at meetup. Been meaning to read this one for ages... so onto Mt TBR with it