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Book Review of The Bookshop

The Bookshop
The Bookshop
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 5


A widow decides to open a bookshop in a town that doesn't have a book store, and only too late begins to suspect the truth...that a town
choosing to survive.

I loved this book! The language was perfectly chosen, the situations made me smile, and I even had to read some of it aloud to my husband.

Florence Green(the widow) is to be admired for her wit, and her innocent courage, that comes from simply choosing to survive. As Balzac said, the ordinariness of human lives can never be a measure of the effort it takes to keep them going.