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The Bookshop
- Author
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Narrator
- Pearl Hewitt
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 15 May 2018
- Run Time
- 3 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Narrator
- Pearl Hewitt
- Duration
- 3 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 May 2018
- ISBN
- 9781977379375
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.
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