The Bookshop
A town without a bookshop is no town at all.
A quietly melancholic period drama about one woman's principled stand against small-town conformity and social pressure, rooted in the value of books and intellectual freedom.
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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