The bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Women in the book industries and trade -- Fiction; Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction; Bookstores -- Fiction; Widows -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Other titles: Book shop
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. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted.

Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
Notes: "A Mariner original."