Cold Comfort Farm

The Book club met on Wednesday the 21st of March, in one of the lovely homes of Janet and Elliot Grant, to discuss Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

Written in 1932 it was reportedly a parody of romanticized melodramatic stories of rural life of the period.

Elliot propounded an innovative approach to the book review process and had each member answer six pertinent questions in turn, from how dated was the book, and what is it a parody of, through how funny was it and which character was the most irritating, to what does the book say about the class system and out of five stars, what does it rate. Some readers really enjoyed the book and the answers were all over the map, but lie in the questions themselves.

The book we will discuss on April 18th will be Snow by Jo Nesbo. The following month we will discuss Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson and in June we will talk about Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi.

Thank you very much to our gracious hosts and to everyone who participated and provided such delicious fare.

We look forward to seeing you in April.