Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope, Nicholls, David
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 3 January 1998 by Harpercollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 176 pages
198 x 130 x 13 | 124g
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.