The Bookshop
Penelope Fitzgerald · 2002
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About the book
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
First sentence: In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Editions
- 20
- Reader rating
- 3.7 / 5 (6)
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 9780006543541
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