![]() Mrs Gamart's nephew, a member of parliament, sponsors a bill that empowers local councils to buy any historic building that has been left uninhabited for five years. She is opposed by the influential and ambitious Mrs Gamart, who wants to acquire the Old House to set up an arts centre. ![]() After many sacrifices, Florence manages to start her business, which grows for about a year, after which sales slump. The location she chooses is the Old House, an abandoned, damp property said to be haunted by a "rapper" ( poltergeist). The novel, set mainly in 1959, follows Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk (a thinly-disguised version of Southwold). ![]() ![]() The novel was made into a film by Isabel Coixet in 2017. The Bookshop is a 1978 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. ![]()
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