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Also by Stella Gibbons:

Nightingale Wood: A Novel, May 2010
Paperback
Cold Comfort Farm, May 2000
Paperback

NIGHTINGALE WOOD: A NOVEL
By: Stella Gibbons

Penguin
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0143117572
EAN: 9780143117575
Paperback
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A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm

Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm.

Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joy­less home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.