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
Stella Farentino Stella Farentino Stella Farentino (born February 16, 1962) is the fourth wife of actor James Farentino and she went on to become an actress herself. A couple of years after marrying actor James Farentino, Stella Farentino began her own acting career. Her biggest role was in 2001's direct-to-video crime movie, "Hard As Nails," as, "Margo," a prostitute whom a detective gets in his car for a talk. Her most mainstream role was on television's, "Everybody Loves Raymond", as, "Anna Barone," the representative of another Barone family, who is thought to be the long lost aunt from Italy, by the American