The Blue Flower / The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Blue The Bookshop

Genres: Fiction

123 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."

Reviews

[Joanna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the bookshop much more than the Blue Flower, which I found hard to follow.

[Tom Davenport · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though brief and baffling, the blue flower is Fitzgerald's best...