The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald ; In 1959 Florence Green risks everything to open a bookshop in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town&#x27;s less prosperous shopkeepers.  Florence&#x27;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&#x27;t always a town that wants one...