Contributions

  • David Nicholls - Introduction

Publication

2015 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivebookshop0000fitz_e2v6
  • ISBN-139780544484092
  • ISBN-100544484096
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015296205
  • Better World Books9780544484092
and 1 more

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.

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