Book description
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Bookshop as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
FitzGerald writes about outliers in society, people who are on the margins of acceptability and feel they cannot fit in. This book tells of a woman who moves to a new place to live and sets up a bookshop against all the odds.
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