NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILY MORTIMER, BILL NIGHY, AND PATRICIA CLARKSON Short-listed for the Booker Prize “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” —BBC Kaleidoscope “A marvelously piercing fiction.” —Times Literary Supplement 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 … 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.
This new edition features an introduction by David Nicholls, author of One Day.
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I would have loved to get to know the characters better. It was like this was a synopsis of the real story…
Overrated. A town of nasty people. The evil lady of the monor. A sweet, kind, but clueless protagonist. Lots of manipulative and underhanded behavior. Unrealistic motivations and responses from characters; specifically that the townspeople are provincial, small minded, old fashioned, and negative yet not one grump complains about the ‘dirty’ book …
Terse novel of 101 pages. Amazing that so much story could come from so few words.
I found the book somewhat boring!
Confusing with no strong plot