the village shop
Also lending library, the shop which acted as a post office, a shop
The village shop and post office with a small lending library, where Bertie meets the Briscoes.
Scenes set here
- Walking round the village, Bertie looks into the shop's lending library, where Angelica Briscoe conspiratorially asks him 'Has he brought it yet?' before her father arrives to buy sweets.Chapter 9, the village shop, as
the shop which acted as a post office