When Florence plans to open a bookshop in Hardborough 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"

Written by Penelope Fitzgerald

Read in ten parts by Maggie Steed.

Abridged and produced by David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996. Show less