麻豆社

When Florence Green plans to open a bookshop in Hardborough - a small town in Suffolk - it is clear she will have powerful local opposition.

"It is a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don't intent to retreat"

Penelope Fitzgerald's novel first published in 1978 - shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Read by Maggie Steed

Abridged and produced by David Hunter.

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in February 1996.