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The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

1997 123 pages eng ★ 3.7 (6 ratings)

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 enla…

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