The Shopkeepers Author:Valerie Maskell When you feel like reading a gentle book, a not too demanding book, this is the way to go. It's 1905 in Culvergate, a seaside resort town on the English coast where strip shops are the only way to go and the shopkeepers work very long hours to make their money during the summer months to tide them over the leaner months of winter. A scandal erup... more »ts when an attractive youngish widow opens a hat shop and where, horror upon horrors, gentlemen are seen to be entering the premises after hours, up the back lane. When these men are identified as some of the more prosperous shopkeepers, the gossips have a field day and lives are changed forever.« less