The Bookshop
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
| ISBN : 9780006543541 | |
| BY (AUTHOR) Fitzgerald, Penelope | |
| PUBLISHER : HarperCollins Publishers | PUBLICATION DATE : June 17, 1996 |
| COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom | IMPRINT : Flamingo |
| LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
| PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback | |
WEIGHT : 130 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Fiction & Related items