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The Bookshop
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A widow opens a bookshop in an English coastal town and the whole town conspires against her. Fitzgerald, subtle and devastating.
✍️ ChatZona's review
Fitzgerald wrote short, exact novels that the canon was slow to recognise. The Bookshop is an exercise in restrained cruelty: a widow who wants to start over in a coastal town and finds the passive-aggressive resistance of a community that prefers things unchanged. The irony is devastating and the ending does not reward the reader with justice — because life does not either. For readers who appreciate literature that does not resolve, but points.
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