The Bookstore (Movie Cover)

The book that inspired the film starring Emily Mortimer, from Shutter Island, and Patricia Clarkson, from House of Cards. Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, decides to open a bookstore—her only one—in the small coastal town of Hardborough in the English countryside. Little did Florence expect, however, that her project would turn Hardborough into a battlefield: while the influential and ambitious Violet Gamart, who had other plans for the centuries-old house she chose as her headquarters, makes Florence her enemy, the entrepreneur also gains an ally in the eccentric Mr. Brundish. In the story of Florence Green facing polite but implacable local opposition, we see the denunciation of a structure of privilege supported by envy and cruelty, and, in the microcosm of Hardborough, Penelope Fitzgerald creates a scenario full of precise details and timeless characters.