 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
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 Short listed for the Booker Prize A beautiful book a perfect little gem BBC Kaleidoscope A marvelously piercing fiction Times Literary Supplement 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 This new edition features an introduction by David Nicholls author of One Day along with new cover art
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