| Record Number |
786059 |
| ISBN |
9780008263027 (paperback) |
| Author |
Fitzgerald, Penelope author. |
| Title |
The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald ; introduction by David Nicholls. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : 4th Estate, 2018. |
| ©1978 |
| Pagination etc. |
156 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents note |
Adapted into a motion picture of the same title in 2017. |
| Originally published: 1978. |
| "A town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one"--Cover. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject |
Women in the book industries and trade -- Fiction |
| Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction |
| Bookstores -- Fiction |
| Widows -- Fiction |
| England -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Political fiction. |
| Added Author |
Nicholls, David, 1966- writer of introduction. |
| Shelf Location |
F FITZ |
