Turns out, opening a bookshop can be quite the dramatic venture! Or at least that’s what Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) is going to discover when she attempts to do so in a conservative coastal town in England in 1959. She may have found a key customer in a reclusive book lover (Bill Nighy), but she’s also earned the ire of the influential Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson) – a woman who has bigger plans for the bookshop’s location. What follows is a story of cultural awakening, political machinations, and a power struggle for the soul of a town that maybe isn’t quite ready to read “Lolita” yet… Written and directed by Isabel Coixet, The Bookshop is based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald.