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🔒 Shaun de Waal reviews ‘The Bookshop’, a film that may not have all the answers about literature’s role in society, but raises the questions.

Who decides: Edmund Brundish and Violet Gamart are on opposite sides of the literary battle in 'The Bookshop', a tale of how one woman’s dream causes ructions in her small town.

is an adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of that name, originally published in 1978 but looking back to an era more than 20 years earlier — that of post-war Britain, with the consciousness of austerity and sense of social stratification that that evokes.

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