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.
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.