One would think the inhabitants would be grateful-as they've been without a bookstore since the day, more than 100 years ago, when ""a bookseller in the High Street. Its premise is straightforward: in 1959, Florence Green-""small, wispy and wiry, somewhat insignificant from the front view, and totally so from the back""-decides to use the small legacy left by her late husband to buy the Old House and start a bookshop in the tiny Suffolk town of Hardborough-by-the-Sea.
This reprint of her 1978 novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (she won it the next year with Offshore), should enjoy a similar success. Long unfamiliar to American readers, Fitzgerald began, last April, to get the attention she deserves when Mariner brought out her 1995 novel, The Blue Flower.
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