Penelope Fitzgerald
1) The bookshop
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Second Mariner Books ed.
Physical Desc
156 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....