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Not every town without a bookshop necessarily wants one, as Florence soon discovers in this wise and funny Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia from Penelope Fitzgerald."The Bookshop is a deceptively quiet novel. (...) One could scarcely imagine a bare plot less likely to yield drama or interest, yet Fitzgerald locates in it rich and surprising stuff." - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostIn a small East Anglian coastal town, outsider Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground, as small towns so easily do. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important but natural and - on occasion supernatural - forces."Penelope Fitzgerald's novel The Bookshop is a little gem, a vintage narrative - first published in 1978 - of parochial English life in the late 1950s, a classic whose force as a piece of physical and moral map making has not merely lasted but has actually improved with the passage of years. (...) Fitzgerald pounces with unerring insight on the nasty, manip

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Author

Penelope Fitzgerald

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780006543541

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.4 / 5 (376 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14