Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm: The perfect Christmas treat
Author: Gibbons, Stella
ISBN: 9780099528678
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A Christmas treat from a treasured comic writer
Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas- Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding- 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!'
'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss
ISBN: 9780099528678
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
A Christmas treat from a treasured comic writer
Indulge in a feel-good collection of stories from the author of Cold Comfort Farm
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas- Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding- 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!'
'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century' Lynne Truss
