One wants Florence Green to triumph in her venture, but the forces of small town England best her, but not without many bright lights of kindness and well-intentioned folks. That this ends with the closing of a bookshop is sad, but one realizes that this is the sort of hard-taken truth of even our own time. People like the idea of books, but often do not understand their essential value to a community and the creation of life in the souls and spirit of readers.