Oh my! This was an excellent and deliciously satirical read. Why this poor book (and its author, Stella Gibbons) is not more widely known beggars belief. Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece of skewering the horrible cliches of English literature based in the “country-pastoral” genre (think Thomas Hardy’s The Trumpet Major). And the ending is, in my opinion, just as satirical of the “good old” Hollywood movie endings of the time period (mid-1930s). I highly recommend the book.