Title: A truly cold comfort farm
Product review: A young, but in no way naive, Swedish woman is ensconced in the most disfunctional family since Flora Poste visited Cold Comfort Farm ... but without the humor. Kerstin (whose name we're regularly reminded is pronounced "Shastin") comes to Lydstep Old Hall to care for a young man. As a registered nurse, Kerstin is well equipped to provide care for just about any illness. However, the source of John's problem is diffuclt to determine; he reportedly has some sort of mental illness, but he's definitely not the only person in the family with problems. Add a strong and nasty matriach, overly familiar family doctor, odd daughters, an unmarried vicar, and a sexually predacious painter, and Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) has given us all the ingredients necessary for a good and dark tale of the English countryside. There is definitely something nasty in this family's woodshed.
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