As the sukebind swells into bud, recently orphaned, expensively educated Flora Poste decides to descend on her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. There are plenty of them: Judith, shrouded in guilt-ridden grief; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; Reuben, eager to step into dead men's shoes; and their sister, the waiflike, wispy, ethereal Elfine. And among the others - Caraway, Harkaway, Rennet, Urk etcetera - looms the enigmatic figurę of batty Great Aunt Ada Doom, who saw something nasty in the woodshed (or was it the cowshed ... or the bicycle shed ... ?)
Full of hearty determination and bolstered by the rural surroundings,
Flora feels it is her duty to bring order to this chaos.