The Original Cold Comfort Farm
Have you read Cold Comfort Farm? It's the hilarious book that the movie Cold Comfort Farm was based on, written by Stella Gibbons lo these many moons ago, parodying a genre of romanticized English ruralness that had become popular in the 1920s. There is much overripe descriptions of landscape, people talk in excessively rural dialects, and if they are haunted by some spectre of the past, they don't shut up about it--"I saw something nasty in the woodshed!" one character anno
