The Bookshop

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By (author): "Penelope Fitzgerald"
Publish Date: 1978
The Bookshop
ISBN0006543545
ISBN139780006543541
AsinThe Bookshop
CharactersFlorence Green, Violet Gamart
Original titleThe Bookshop
Alternative cover editions for this ISBN can be found here and hereIn the small East Anglian coastal town of Hardborough, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.Hardborough quickly becomes a battleground – for Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done. As a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.