Just as all the loose threads were being tied up successfully at the end of the book there was for me an unexpected sadness which I wish the author hadn’t included, but I can see why she did. This one is just as good, but very different. It’s a shame that everything that she wrote seems to have been compared with Cold Comfort Farm, which has so many laugh out loud moments, but that was a one-off. There’s quite a cast of odd characters, people that probably only someone like Daisy would put up with. James is also just too kind and polite, but he quietly resents being taken for granted. It could be a dangerous situation for Daisy to be in – not that she realises it. Her husband is getting really fed up being last in the queue for her time. The result is that she spends most of her time trying to sort out problems for people that she hardly even knows. Daisy is a rare person, she’s the first person that anyone who has ever met her seems to think of when they are in trouble and Daisy just can’t say ‘no’ to anyone. The pink front door belongs to a London house which is owned by a young couple Daisy and James, they have a small son generally known as ‘James Too’, but he doesn’t feature much in the story. A Pink Front Door by Stella Gibbons was first published in 1959 ( a very good year!)
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