Florence Green has decided to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk, where she has lived for years as a war widow.

When Florence asks Milo North, a local celebrity whom she had met at the party, whether Violet had recruited him for her arts centre project, his response is cagey.

Learning of the threats to Florence's business, he emerges from his seclusion, visits Mrs Gamart, and adamantly tells her to desist.

Mrs Gamart's nephew, a member of Parliament, sponsors a bill that empowers local councils to buy any historic building that has been left unused for five years.

The scene switches to the present day and it becomes clear that the voice-over narrator is the adult Christine, who now runs her own bookshop.

La librería, the Spanish version of The Bookshop, premiered at the inauguration gala of the 2017 edition of SEMINCI, Valladolid, with excellent reviews.

[8] On 18 December 2017 Variety announced a Berlinale Special Gala with The Bookshop in February 2018, during the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.

The website's critical consensus reads: "A rare adaptation that sticks too closely to its source material, The Bookshop's meticulously crafted world building gets lost in its meandering pace".

[15][16] On 13 December 2017, The Bookshop received 12 nominations for the XXXIIIrd edition of the Goya Awards, by the Spanish Cinema Academy.