Cold Comfort Farm

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Stardakkers: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben, child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years.