Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life which were popular at the time. The heroine, Flora Post, stays at Aunt Ada Doom's isolated farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. Each of the farm's inhabitants have some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred or fear, and the farm is badly run. Flora, being a level-headed, urban woman, applies modern common sense to their problems and helps them adapt to the 20th century.