Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb. Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own living". She decides to take advantage of the fact that "no limits are set, either by society or one's own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one's relatives", and settles on visiting her distant
Kate Beckinsale Beckinsale and Wiseman deny getting together while "Underworld" was shooting. They married on 9 May 2004 in Bel-Air, California. Beckinsale and Wiseman announced their separation in November 2015, and Wiseman filed for divorce in 2016. Beckinsale is a smoker. When she was nine, her mother moved in with Roy Battersby, and his sons introduced her to cigarettes. She does not drink alcohol. She frequently reveals very personal details of her life in interviews. "...I've never been drunk even. I've never taken drugs. I've never had a one-night-stand..."<br> In 2007, she appeared alongside David Schwimmer in the sixth of the Writers