num_pages: 4
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. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
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: Mariner Books