The Bookshop: Trailer 1

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.