Flora Poste, an orphaned relative and modern Town girl, is thrust by necessity into the spectacularly chaotic setting of a dysfunctional Farm in the 1930’s. Flora is lively, bossy and interfering and wades into the surreal squalor armed only with common sense and the absolute conviction that she will haul the extraordinary cast of characters she finds there into the Twentieth Century. Added spice comes from the clash of cultures, the lure of the cinema, and a lunatic religious cult and the whole concoction results in a fast-moving comedy that resembles something that the “Fast Show” might devise if let loose on the “Archers”. Often described as one of the great English comic novels.