England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily
Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian
coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through
works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless
opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and
affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's
obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced
to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based
on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet
(Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of
personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.