num_pages: 158
description: Follows a kindhearted English widow's struggle to open a bookshop in a seaside town against the polite, but uncompromising opposition of the town's arbiters of culture
language: English
title: The Bookshop
titlecomplete: The Bookshop
characters: Florence Green, Violet Gamart
genres: Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Books About Books, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Audiobook, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 22730
places: East Anglia, England
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Thorndike Pr