7/3/2023 0 Comments Cold comfort farm novel![]() ![]() In a prefatory note to her novel, Gibbons states: ‘The action of the story takes place in the near future.’ The point of this is to exaggerate the distance between the modern life of the metropolis and the supposedly backward existence of country communities, as represented in the rural fiction which Gibbons was parodying. She could not look at him, because public telephones were not fitted with television dials. He fancied she was tracing a pattern with the tip of her shoe. Her eyes were lowered and her mouth compressed over the serious business of arranging Elfine’s future. You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.’Ĭlaud twisted the television dial and amused himself by studying Flora’s fair, pensive face. ![]() I would really rather we did not have him, Claud. ‘Squalid or not,’ said the small, clear voice of Flora, fifty miles away (for she thought she would answer his letter by telephone, as she was in a hurry to get the affair arranged), ‘he is all we can find, unless we have that Mr Mybug I told you about. ![]()
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