A new edition of Cold Comfort Farm

That wonderful book, Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons will be released in a brand-new edition by Penguin next February. It will feature an introduction by Lynne Truss and a gorgeous cover by Roz Chast. (Though we must say the old cover wasn't bad either).

If you're wondering what this book has to do with the Brontës, the review published today in The Times might help a little.

Then there’s Elfine — pure Emily Brontë: “ ‘Do you like poetry?’ . . . I adore it . . . somehow . . . It means . . . oh, I don’t know. Just everything . . . And love, too . . . Love and poetry go together, somehow . . . out here on the hills’.” (Margaret Reynolds)

But it doesn't stop there. The book is full of delightful and unexpected Brontë mentions - both explicit and otherwise, including the hilarious Mr Mybug who is writing a book on how it was actually Branwell Brontë who wrote Wuthering Heights.

Seriously, this is a little gem of a book, and not only for the Brontë connection.

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