Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Florence Green decides to open bookshop in small coastal town of Hardborough, Fact2: Florence manages to start business, Fact3: business grows for about year, Fact4: Gamart set up arts centre in Old House, Fact5: Old House is purchased compulsorily
Output (English): The film, as the novel does, is set mainly in 1959, and centres around Florence Green, a middleaged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk. The location chosen is the Old House, an abandoned, damp house said to be infested by ghosts. After many sacrifices, Florence manages to start her business, which grows for about a year after which sales slump. Mr. Brundish, the lonely and mysterious inhabitant of the house at the top of the hill, is Florences best client. The influential and ambitious Mrs. Gamart, wants and intends to set up an arts centre in the Old House. Mrs. Gamarts nephew, a member of Parliament, sponsors a bill that empowers local councils to buy any historical building that has been left uninhabited for five years. The bill is passed, the Old House is compulsorily purchased, and Florence is evicted.