Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer. In 2008, the Times included her in a list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.' In 2012, the Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of 'the ten best historical novels.'
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In 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 ... SEE MORE