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 towns less prosperous shopkeepers. New York Times 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. From 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.

Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isnt always a town that wants one. Florences warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. 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.

Book Synopsis National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgeralds The Bookshop is a marvelously piercing fiction (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize. Featuring an introduction by David Nicholls. About the Book A marvelously piercing fiction (Times Literary Supplement), shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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