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.Gold title• Penelope Fitzgerald is one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century. She was awarded the Booker Prize in 1979, and shortlisted another three times. Her fans include David Nicholls, Jonathan Franzen, A S Byatt and Sebastian Faulks.• Part of a major reissue programme of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels and non-fiction, to coincide with Hermione Lee’s biography of Fitzgerald, published in the same month.• Packaged with a beautiful and modern look, with new introductions for all titles from Penelope Fitzgerald’s literary admirers, including Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Callow.Competition: AS Byatt, Rose Tremain
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.Gold title• Penelope Fitzgerald is one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century. She was awarded the Booker Prize in 1979, and shortlisted another three times. Her fans include David Nicholls, Jonathan Franzen, A S Byatt and Sebastian Faulks.• Part of a major reissue programme of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novels and non-fiction, to coincide with Hermione Lee’s biography of Fitzgerald, published in the same month.• Packaged with a beautiful and modern look, with new introductions for all titles from Penelope Fitzgerald’s literary admirers, including Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Callow.Competition: AS Byatt, Rose Tremain