The bookshop
Fitzgerald, Penelope2018
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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.
The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by David Nicholls.
Fitzgerald, Penelope, authorNicholls, David, 1966-, writer of introduction
London : 4th Estate, 2018.©1978
156 pages ; 20 cm
Adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 2017.Originally published: 1978."A town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one"--Cover.
9780008263027 (paperback)9780008263027 (pbk)9780008263027
823.914
English
319289
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - General | FITZ | Available |
Brighton Library | Paperbacks | F | - (Set: 08 Jul 2020) |
Brighton Library | Paperbacks | F | Available |