3.6
Fantasy & SciFi
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
© 2016 Fourth Estate (Audiobook): 9780008233075
Release date
Audiobook: 15 December 2016
3.6
Fantasy & SciFi
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
© 2016 Fourth Estate (Audiobook): 9780008233075
Release date
Audiobook: 15 December 2016
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Labster
11 Sept 2022
About books, a bittersweet story.
Priti
4 Jun 2020
It's a slow paced story with a lukewarm sad ending in 1959 small English town . Good
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