The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald

May 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Pearl Hewitt

About this audiobook

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 prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.

About the author

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."

Pearl Hewitt is an award-winning British audiobook narrator and voice actor currently living in Houston, Texas. She has narrated over 100 audiobooks in a wide variety of genres.