Stella Gibbons 
Conference at Cold Comfort Farm 

Robert Poste »s child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labelled  »Quiete Retreate » and  »Greate laundrie ». It is, Flora winces,  »exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time ».
Worse, the farm is hosting a conference of the pretentious International Thinkers Group – a group made up of the  »sadistic owl » Mr Peccavi, loathsome Mr Mybug and the overpowering Mrs Ernestine Thump.
And worst of all, there are no Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. All the he-cousins have gone abroad to make their fortunes and the female cousins are having a pretty thin time of it. Once again the sensible Flora decides to take the situation in hand.