![]() ![]() She is a little unsure of her business decisions, but under the influence of her astonishingly capable 10-year-old shop assistant Christine, Florence hardens a bit. She is all determination and forthrightness. Widow Florence Green decides to open a bookshop and buys a haunted, crumbling building in which to sell her wares. Delightful because the world of books, fictional and real, has booksellers like Florence Green, who buys hundreds of silk bookmarks because they are beautiful and hundreds of copies of Lolita because, after taking advice, is assured that regardless of how much money it will make, it is a book worth reading. ![]() Dark because the forces of evil, in the guise of a woman named Violet, seem to prevail. What a delightfully acerbic and dark read this is. I have to begin by saying that I can’t think of how to write about this book without spoilers. ![]()
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