The Bookshop [electronic resource]
Fitzgerald, Penelope2013
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia. 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.
Main title:
The Bookshop [electronic resource] / Penelope Fitzgerald
Author:
Fitzgerald, Penelope, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in British literature. The prize-winning author of nine novels, three biographies and one collection of short stories, she died in 2000.
ISBN:
9780007373833
Language:
English
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BRN:
2338986
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