Penelope Fitzgerald's wonderful Booker-nominated novel.
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.
- ISBN10 0395869463
- ISBN13 9780395869468
- Publish Date 15 September 1997 (first published October 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 128
- Language English