If you’re unfamiliar with book or movie, here’s the gist: After the death of her parents, the resilient Flora Poste must find relatives who will put her up. The movie is a faithful adaptation of a delightful book that also never explains the mysteries of the nasty thing in the woodshed, nor the wrong done to Robert Poste. To both my delight and disappointment, all my expectations were met. I’d only seen the 1995 movie starring Kate Beckinsale as “Robert Poste’s child,” but it was a wonderful experience and I hoped reading the book would prove the movie to be a faithful adaptation and would also explain the mystery that never gets explained in the movie. Some oblique reference to “something nasty in the woodshed” must have burrowed it‘s way into my subconscious at some point, which re-awakened my long dormant resolve “I really must read that sometime.” For some reason, Cold Comfort Farm had been preying on my mind recently.
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