Short-listed for the Booker Prize "A beautiful book, a perfect little gem." -- BBC Kaleidoscope "A marvelously piercing fiction." -- Times Literary Supplement 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.
This new edition features an introduction by David Nicholls, author of One Day , along with new cover art..
Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a Bookshop isn\'t always a town that wants one.
Florence\'s warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted.
Gamart, the local arts doyenne.
By daring to enlarge her neighbors\' lives, she crosses Mrs.
By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town\'s less prosperous shopkeepers.
Short-listed for the Booker Prize "A beautiful book, a perfect little gem." -- BBC Kaleidoscope "A marvelously piercing fiction." -- Times Literary Supplement 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
