Stand out characters include Graceless, Aimless and Feckless, the farm's three spindly cows with a tendency to lose limbsFlora, sophisticated, expensively educated and newly orphaned, descends on her relatives' (the Starkadders) farm in rural Sussex to perform a much needed sorting out of their complicated lives. From her fiery preacher uncle, to the formidable Aunt Ada Doom, Flora keeps her cool as she systematically addresses each of their problems, leading to one of the most nicely tied up endings I've read in a while.Gibbons, writing in 1932, sets the action in an imagined near future, so watch out for TV phones and air taxis. Stand out characters include Graceless, Aimless and Feckless, the farm's three spindly cows with a tendency ...