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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. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
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The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- The Bookshop
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 123
- ISBN10
- 0395869463
- ISBN13
- 9780395869468
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Humor, Women, British Literature, England, Society, Life, Great Britain, Adapted for Film, Seas and Oceans, About Books, Fight, Villages, 1950s, Bookstores, Petty Bourgeoisie
- Original title
- The bookshop
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- 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. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.