The Bookshop

The Bookshop

By Penelope Fitzgerald
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“Fitzgerald wasn’t interested in writing about literature so much as power and clout, and her gemlike short novel exquisitely explores the subtle ways that small-town manners cloak a brand of nasty skulduggery that undermines well-intentioned women like Florence.”

O, The Oprah Magazine

An Oprah Pick of Books behind Summer's Biggest Movies

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

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. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn’t always a town that wants one.