"Cold Comfort Farm" 1964 GIBBONS, Stella (SOLD)

GIBBONS, Stella

[254] pp.

The Dial Press

1964

8 1/4" x 5 7/8"

Review copy slip laid-in

Illustrated by Charles Saxon

*front flap separated from jacket*

A spectacularly sly and amusing novel about a suddenly orphaned gentlewoman forced to live among her hopelessly rustic extended family in the country. The novel is the genesis for the oft-repeated phrase: "There's something nasty in the woodshed." Basis for an underrated and delicious 1995 film directed by John Schlesinger, and featuring Kate Beckinsale in one of her earliest starring roles, with splendid support from Stephen Fry, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellen, and several others.