![]() ![]() I wasn’t particularly expecting to enjoy this book. She aims to keep things exactly as they are-and I’ll come back to her later. She knows Flora would like to meet her, but so far she’s kept her away for a month. Her favourite grandson has told Flora how women are like spiders-the female likes nothing better than to eat the cock-spider-and old Mrs Starkadder has been in control, at the centre of her web, for 20 long years. Meanwhile, in the chapter I’ve reached, we finally get inside not only the room of the materfamilias but right inside her head. Flora, Stella Gibbons’s super-resourceful heroine, wants to ‘tidy up’ the labyrinthine family mess that is Cold Comfort Farm, and she’s sure her plans are going well…. ![]() Nearly half-way through, and it feels like a good place to pause. ![]()
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