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Chosen for February by Karen Howlett
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
It is 1959 and Florence Green decides "to take a step forward in middle age" and open a bookshop in the small Suffolk town of Hardborough, a place more used to the sale of wet fish and "Rhoda's modes" than literature, but what could possibly go wrong?! Florence reckons without local politics, petty rivalries and resistance to change - let alone the public reaction to her stocking Lolita - but then she discovers she has an unexpected and powerful ally in a local gentleman whose support for her may just carry the day... or will it? This is a little gem of a book: not a word out of place, wryly funny, beautifully observed and with a pale wash of period colour. Perfection in 150 pages.
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