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Name: The Bookshop
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald

Florence Green, a widow with modest inheritance, opens the sole bookshop in the seaside town of Hardborough in 1959. Her venture challenges the local shops and the town’s arts doyenne, Mrs. Gamart. As the shop grows, physical problems and a sense of haunting surface, prompting Florence to question whether a town missing a bookshop is truly unwilling to have one.

First publish date: December 2, 2002

Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction

Authors: Penelope Fitzgerald

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