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Florence wants to convert an old, damp house into a bookshop - but faces powerful opposition. Read by Maggie Steed.

When Florence Green plans to open a bookshop in Hardborough - a small town in Suffolk - it is clear she will have powerful local opposition.

"It is a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don't intent to retreat"

Penelope Fitzgerald's novel first published in 1978 - shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Read by Maggie Steed

Abridged and produced by David Hunter.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in February 1996.

1 hour, 10 minutes

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Mon 20 Feb 2023 00:30

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