Description: Orphaned and impoverished, Flora Poste goes to Sussex to stay with her bizarre cousins, the Starkadders. Their squalid farm is ruled by Ada Doom, who was traumatized in her childhood by "something nasty in the woodshed." Written as a par...
Synopsis Orphaned and impoverished, Flora Poste goes to Sussex to stay with her bizarre cousins, the Starkadders. Their squalid farm is ruled by Ada Doom, who was traumatized in her childhood by "something nasty in the woodshed." Written as a parody of popular fiction in 1932, this witty novel is being reissued in conjunction with the film in an adaptation by Malcolm Bradbury.
Details
Publication Date:
2006-03-28
Series:
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Illustrator:
Lynne Truss
Edition Description:
Deluxe
Size
Length:
233 pages
Height:
8.5 in
Width:
5.8 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
10.4 oz
Publisher's Note 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.
Industry Reviews "Gibbons' skewed vision retains its humorous appeal." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Charles Solomon (02/25/1996)