The bookshop /
Fitzgerald, Penelope,
The bookshop / Book shop Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by David Nicholls. - Second Mariner books edition. - xxiv, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 2017.
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.
9780544484092 0544484096
2015296205
Women in the book industries and trade--Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
Bookstores--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
The bookshop / Book shop Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by David Nicholls. - Second Mariner books edition. - xxiv, 156 pages ; 21 cm
Adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 2017.
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.
9780544484092 0544484096
2015296205
Women in the book industries and trade--Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
Bookstores--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
England--Fiction.