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Penelope Fitzgerald

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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.
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141 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • yelena zhelezov-tsentsipershared an impression6 years ago

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  • Ксения Буковскаяshared an impression7 years ago

    Просто отличная книга и чудесный язык.

  • Hasyemi Rafsanjani Asyarishared an impression6 years ago
    💧Soppy

Quotes

  • Anya Piotrovskayahas quoted7 years ago
    ‘I don’t know that men are better judges than women,’ said Florence, ‘but they spend much less time regretting their decisions
  • Ирина Горитовскаяhas quoted5 years ago
    It isn’t red! It’s garnet, or deep rust!’
  • Ирина Горитовскаяhas quoted5 years ago
    ‘But it’s Wednesday!’ Mrs Green exclaimed, in spite of herself.

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