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Cold Comfort Farm

by Stella Gibbons

Paperback, 233 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $16 |

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Title: Cold Comfort Farm
Author: Stella Gibbons

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When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm. Reissue.

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