The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Course Code: 3XPF05B24

Start Date: 15/01/2025

Wednesday

Session: Afternoon

Delivery method: Centre Only

Length in weeks: 5

Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Price: £

An elegant short novel about Florence Green, a “small, wispy, wiry” widow who in 1959 is determined to open a bookshop in a small seaside town, against polite but ruthless opposition, especially when the decision is taken to stock and sell Nabokov’s novel Lolita. Penelope Fitzgerald was an original, a superb and perceptive chronicler of eccentricity as well as conformity, with a firm moral compass. This is a novel for those who love books, bookshops and the Suffolk coast!