{"product_id":"bookshop-book-penelope-fitzgerald-9780395869468","title":"The Bookshop","description":"\u003cb\u003e A classic whose force as a piece of physical and moral map making has not merely lasted but has actually improved with the passage of years. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A beautiful book, a perfect little gem. \u003ci\u003e Kaleidoscope, \u003c\/i\u003eBC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PENELOPE FITZGERALD (1916 2000) was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Flower, \u003c\/i\u003e the Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eOffshore, \u003c\/i\u003e and three of her novels \u003ci\u003eThe Bookshop, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gate of Angels, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e were short-listed for the Booker Prize.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519153840401,"sku":"GOR001994473","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49564039643409,"sku":"CIN0395869463A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49648754229521,"sku":"GOR001949653","price":6.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49876550549777,"sku":"CIN0395869463G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50290829328657,"sku":"CIN0395869463VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0395869463.jpg?v=1751260086","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/bookshop-book-penelope-fitzgerald-9780395869468","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}