Thursday 14th November, 7:15pm, £7

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, first published in 1932, is a ‘pitch perfect’ parody of rural melodramas. Sophisticated Flora Poste descends on her bizarre relatives, the doomed Starkadders, living in deepest Sussex. Loving to organise other people, she resolves to better each of their lives. ‘Brilliant … very probably the funniest book ever written’ Sunday Times.

The discussion will be led by Glad West.