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The Bookshop

and The gate of angels ; and The blue flower

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An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The Bookshop

and The gate of angels ; and The blue flower

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 30 Want to read
  • 9 Have read

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. Her warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently...haunted.

Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: that a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.

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Everyman's Library
Language
English
Pages
512

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Booksellers and bookselling, Bookstores, England, Fiction, Relations with women, Widows, Women in the book industries and trade, Working class women, Fiction, general, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, England, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Widows, fiction, Cities and towns, Germany, fiction, English literature, Women in the book industries and trade--fiction, Booksellers and bookselling--fiction, Bookstores--fiction, Widows--fiction, Pr6056.i86 b66 2015, 823/.914, 18.05

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Novalis (1772-1801), Sophie von Kühn (1782-1797)

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England

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De boekhandel
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The Bookshop
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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The bookshop: The gate of angels ; The blue flower
2003, Knopf
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The Bookshop: and The gate of angels ; and The blue flower
2001, Everyman's Library
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1997, Houghton Mifflin
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Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

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512p. ;
Number of pages
512

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OL22056325M
ISBN 10
1857152476
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258739
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In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
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