Where, for Webb or Hardy, a misstep, malformation or sin inexorably predicts a wasted, prematurely-ended life, or at least an awful lot of misery, Gibbons rolls up her sleeves and blithely enters the tragic landscape, tidying it up and setting things to rights.
Once ensconced, she addresses herself to hygienic interference in the affairs of the clan: poetical, unkempt, sensationally beautiful Elfine amorous Seth, who secretly loves the talkies better than the myriad women he gets up the duff fiercely territorial Reuben and the unforgettable Great-Aunt Ada, who once saw "something narsty in the woodshed" and has been reclining in bed ever since on four tray-meals a day, directing operations.Ĭold Comfort Farm is a parody of the doomy, tragic, close-to-the-earth gothic novels of writers like Mary Webb and DH Lawrence, and, earlier, Thomas Hardy.
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