"After promising never to write to me again, Adelaide Addison has sent me another letter. It is devoted to all the people and practices she deplores, and you are one of them, along with Charles Lamb." in a letter from Juliet Ashton to Dawsey Adams
The story takes place on Gurnsey Island located in the English Challel off the coast of Normandy. The time is World War II and the Nazis are occupying the island. A surreptitious roast pig dinner is the catalyst for the establishment of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Written as a series of letters between Juliet Ashton, the society members, the Gurnsey Island inhabitants, and some of Juliet's friends, many plots twist and turn with tidbits of information given to tease and lead the reader to read more.
This first novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece Annie Barrows gives us a very good picture of what was happening on the island. The Times (London) describes the book as "Cooked perfectly a point: subtle and elegant in flavour; yet emotonally satisfying to the finish." Read the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.
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