The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald · 1978

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In the small East Anglian coastal town of Hardborough, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

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Hardborough quickly becomes a battleground - for Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done. As a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.

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adult
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short · 123 pages
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