2023/027: The Bookshop — Penelope Fitzgerald

2023/027: The Bookshop — Penelope Fitzgerald

‘It is a good book, and therefore you should try to sell it to the inhabitants of Hardborough. They won’t understand it, but that is all to the good. Understanding makes the mind lazy.’ [p. 100]

It's 1959, and Florence Green, a resident for ten years of the small Suffolk town of Hardborough ('where everyone could be seen coming over the wide distances and everything seen was discussed'), decides to open a bookshop. She purchases the Old House, which has a resident poltergeist, and at once meets opposition from the redoubtable Mrs Gamart,( Read more... )