Penelope Fitzgerald is the most British name ever, and in ways, she’s the most British writer ever. She started publishing when she was about 60 and then went on to publish 9 novels after that. She won the Booker Prize in 1978 for her novel Offshore, which is mostly just ok. I read her novel, The Bookshop, about a woman opening up a bookshop in a small coastal town in 1959. The owner then overruns the town with copies of Lolita. It’s great. This novel is just ok. This […]