num_pages: 123
description: National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop is "a marvelously piercing fiction" ( Times Literary Supplement ), short-listed for the Booker Prize.With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of One Day.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 a town that lacks a bookshop isn’t always a town that wants one.Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.
language: English
title: The Bookshop
titlecomplete: The Bookshop
characters: Violet Gamart, Florence Green
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Books About Books, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 22717
places: East Anglia, England
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Mariner Books