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The bookshop

The gate of angels ; The blue flower

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An edition of The Bookshop (1978)

The bookshop

The gate of angels ; The blue flower

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.67 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 27 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 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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Knopf
Language
English
Pages
472

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Subjects
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
People
Novalis (1772-1801), Sophie von Kühn (1782-1797)
Places
England

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The Bookshop
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
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De boekhandel
Apr 29, 2015, Uitgeverij Karmijn
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The bookshop: The gate of angels ; The blue flower
2003, Knopf
in English
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The bookshop
1997, Houghton Mifflin
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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New York
Series
Everyman's library ;, 247
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
Gate of angels., Blue flower.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6056.I86 A6 2003b, PR6056.I86A6 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 472 p. ;
Number of pages
472

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3688342M
ISBN 10
1400041260, 1857152476
LCCN
2003054595
Library Thing
258739
Goodreads
11729
571174

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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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