![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.įrom the Back Cover A classic whose force as a piece of physical and moral map making has not merely lasted but has actually improved with the passage of years. ![]() Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. 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. With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of One Day. Featuring an introduction by David Nicholls.īook Synopsis National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" ( Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize. About the Book A marvelously piercing fiction ( Times Literary Supplement), shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ![]()
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