The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (1978) was shortlisted for a Booker and I swear is the Ur book for so many romances and cozy mysteries set in bookshops in the decades since. It's 1959 and kind-hearted widow Florence Green has gone to the small seaside town of Hardborough to open its only bookshop.
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