Details for 'The Bookshop' by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop
People living in Hardborough, an East Anglian seaside town resembling Southwold and Aldeburgh, don't want a bookshop. Owner, Florence Green battles against the opposition before facing the inevitable.
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Read by Woodbridge Book Group on 28th January 2013
Beautiful, vivid, spare writing enjoyed by most, but some found the story dull and the characters poorly drawn.