The Country Life (novel) The Country Life (novel) The Country Life is a comedic novel by Rachel Cusk, first published in 1997, which draws on Stella Gibbons' "Cold Comfort Farm" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". It won a 1998 Somerset Maugham Award. The novel is a comedy that draws on both "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Stella Benson, the first-person narrator, abruptly abandons her life in London to take a position as carer to Martin, the wheelchair-bound teenage son of the wealthy and eccentric Madden family, in a farm near a small village in rural Sussex. The
Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie is a 1984 comedy film about Frankenstein that is based in Transylvania. June Wilkinson, who had a part in the film, was interviewed in the book "Screen Sirens Scream!" about her role. The film's music was written about in the book "Musique fantastique". Castle Frankenstein has been empty for years and the local council is planning to repossess it, when the Frankenstein family return, seeking to find hidden treasure, and to re-animate the Frankenstein monster. "The Bloody Pit of Horror" wrote, "I literally cringe at the thought of ever stumbling across something