The bookshop / Penelope Fitzgerald.
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TextPublisher: London : Fourth Estate, 2014Copyright date: ©1978Edition: Fourth Estate paperback editionDescription: xviii, 156 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780006543541Subject(s): Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- Fiction | Booksellers and bookselling -- England -- Fiction | Bookstores -- England -- Fiction | Widows -- England -- Fiction | Women in the book industries and trade -- Fiction | Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction | Bookstores -- FictionSummary: Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.' Hardborough becomes a battleground, as small towns so easily do. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. This is a story for anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
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Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation.' Hardborough becomes a battleground, as small towns so easily do. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. This is a story for anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
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