The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Bookshop

Author: Penelope Fitzgerald

Narrator: Pearl Hewitt

Unabridged: 3 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Published: 05/15/2018

Genre: Fiction - Historical

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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