The Bookshop
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Contributions
- David Nicholls - Introduction
Publication
2015 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Language
English
Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29701796M
- ISBN-139780544484092
- OCLC Control Number885225572
- Internet Archivebookshop0000fitz_e2v6
- Library of Congress Control Number2015296205
Classifications
- LCCPR6056.I86B66 2015
- LCCPR6056.I86 B66 2015
Description
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.
First Sentence
In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
Excerpt
In 1959 Florence Green occasionally passed a night when she was not absolutely sure whether she had slept or not.
Description
The pettiness of an English seaside town. It is described by Florence Green, a middle-aged widow who buys a house for a bookshop, something the town has not had for over a century. Leading her enemies is Mrs. Gamart who wanted the house for an arts center.
Subjects
Topics
Places
People
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