Books by Stella Gibbons
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review 1: I love Stella Gibbon's wickedly funny "Cold Comfort Farm." There is still a good dose of her wit and biting observations in this later novel, but I found this pre-WWII anti-romantic classist comedy to be dreary and interminable. In the end, all of the loose ends are tidied away i...
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review 1: Often reads like a rough draft where an author has indicated lots of places where she's going to come back later and devise a way to "show, not tell," but then never got around to it. Still, somewhere around the halfway point I found myself engaged enough to stick it out. And t...
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review 1: This was enjoyable, but did not have the memorable characters of Cold Comfort Farm.Viola is a former shopgirl widow. Her husband's well off family takes her in when her husband dies, but have little interest in her life or feelings. She falls in love with a neighbor, even thoug...
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review 1: I love this book. From the constant internal dialog of all the characters to the uncensored view of the upper class in the early 1900's to the adorable and sometimes exasperating romance stories running thought out this book it was amazing. I will happily and readily read this bo...
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review 1: Follow Your HeartThis is a calm, easy going story about people daring to go after what they want. I say "calm" because it is a gentle and sometimes slow story. Sprinkled throughout are touches of Stella Gibbons' great humor. I didn't want to miss those - but at times the action w...
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review 1: [Vintage sent me this as a prize in a twitter challenge]A bit of a lightweight comedy, but still charming. It's set in wartime Highgate and was written in 1946. High Point gets a mention (I think she calls it 'High Rise') and even the Woodman is there (as 'The Woodcutters'). I'm ...