I'm not supposed to be here just now but I'm popping in briefly to give you the name of the Cornflower Book Group's January book. What with bank holidays, closed shops and libraries and disrupted postal service I thought I wouldn't wait to get my own copy but just let you know now that it is Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
It's a short novel (under 200 pages) and it's set in 1959 in a tiny English seaside town where Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, buys a medieval building and turns it into a bookshop - the town's first; by the sound of things, all does not go according to plan.
I hope everyone who wants to read this will be able to get a copy easily (The Book Depository can supply it with free worldwide delivery if you have any trouble finding it locally), and do please join in with us if you'd like to - we are nice!
