{"product_id":"the-bookshop-9780544484092","title":"The Bookshop","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald's \u003cem\u003eThe Bookshop\u003c\/em\u003e is \"a marvelously piercing fiction\" (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e), short-listed for the Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith an Introduction by David Nicholls, international best-selling author of\u003c\/em\u003e One Day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly 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\u003cem\u003eBasis for the major motion picture starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePENELOPE 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50607422079250,"sku":"9780544484092","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a9382999-208b-4508-9e53-f57360d0f692.jpg?v=1732308320","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bookshop-9780544484092","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}