![]() Raven, the wise marshman and the reclusive local squire, Mr. ![]() Florence’s own allies are few and oddly matched: the eleven-year-old Christine Gipping Mr. As the battle heats up, Florence must contend not only with Violet Gamart and her cohorts, but with a poltergeist and forces of nature as well. In this “island between sea and river,” Florence Green, a middle-aged widow with “a kind heart” -decides to open a bookshop in a long-unused, five-hundred-year-old property, the Old House.įlorence does not anticipate the ruthless opposition of Violet Gamart, who dreams of her own Hardborough Centre for Music and the Arts in the Old House and will not countenance any contenders for cultural first lady. ![]() The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” -BBC “Kaleidoscope” Penelope Fitzgerald’s second novel, her first to be short-listed for England’s prestigious Booker Prize, is set in the small East Anglian town of Hardborough in 1959. ![]()
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