In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
An edition of The Bookshop
(1978)
The bookshop
1st U.S. ed.
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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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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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, 18.05Places
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