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Nicola

This sounds right up my street. Beautiful cover. I've only read Cold Comfort Farm, didn't even know Gibbons had written other books.

Dark Puss

Nicola, Gibbons was a prolific writer with more than 20 novels, collections of poetry and I think at least one play. She wrote two sequels to Cold Comfort Farm neither of which I have read but I suspect they aren't nearly as good since you never (I mean I never) hear about them.

B MacLeod

Yes, I feel the same ... must get a copy.

Elaine

Am just reading this and loving it

Phil

I read them years and years ago after reading Cold Comfort Farm; they didn't engage me so well as CCF - I dimly remember that they seemed to carp on about bureaucracy rather a lot (they were immediately post war and she must have been fed up with it). I keep meaning to revisit them though and I love Nightingale Wood.

Cornflower

It is fun, isn't it.
CCF is just so 'right' that I'm wary of taking the gloss off it by reading sequels which don't quite measure up.

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