The Bookshop

Description

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop is “a marvelously piercing fiction” (Times Literary Supplement), short-listed for the Booker Prize.

With an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of One Day.

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.

Basis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Published: 06/09/2015
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780544484092
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.20″ W

About the Author
PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916-2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for The Blue Flower, the Booker Prize for Offshore, and three of her novels — The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, and The Beginning of Spring — were short-listed for the Booker Prize.