![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for her popular parody of the “loam and lovechild” school of fiction, Cold Comfort Farm, she later wrote a number of other novels of quite a different flavor, several of which are now available from Dean Street Press. Stella Gibbons seems to be a master at this type of book. ![]() If the scenery of that place is attractive, so much the better, but mostly it’s about the people, slipping into their hopes and fears and dreams, letting go of my own convoluted problems for a while. Sometimes all I ask from a book is to transport me to someplace different so I can meet and live with another set of people for a while. Stella Gibbons, The Swiss Summer (1951), A Pink Front Door (1959), The Weather at Tregulla (1962), The Snow-Woman (1969) ![]()
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