The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By
Shaffer, Mary Ann,
Barrows, Annie
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| Price: | $14.00 |
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| Categories: | Novels, General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780440337973 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc., Dell Publishing |
| Language: | English |
Summary
“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb…. Continue reading...
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Helpful Customer Reviews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Lucy (The United States)
Thu Oct 23 2008 10:51
Guernsey is a small Island in the English Channel that was controlled for five years by German forces during World War II. After the war, a young female British author, Juliet Ashton, finds herself unwillingly on a book tour to promote her book, Izzy Bickerstaff Goes To War. She's tired of the war, ...more...
Suzanne (Scituate, MA)
Wed Apr 08 2009 09:21
This was a fun and uplifting book written in an epistolery style (a series of letters between characters rather than narrative) I thought I would be put off by the format, instead I was charmed.
The story takes place primarily on the English Channel island of Guernsey, 30 miles off the coa...more...
Bookczuk (Charleston, SC)
Fri Mar 27 2009 07:23
Oh what a marvelous book! Given to me by Hazrabai.
When I first heard a reference to this book, I honestly thought I might be hearing wrong. After all, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society sounds more like a band that might appear on A Prairie Home Companion than the ...more...
Christa (Shreveport, LA)
Sun Jan 18 2009 20:55
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was a charming and touching novel. The book is written in the form of letters by a colorful and likeable cast of characters. It was interesting to learn a little bit about life on the British Island of Guernsey during its German occupation of WWII....more...
Katie (New York, NY)
Wed Jun 23 2010 17:13
When I first heard about this book, I assumed it was going to be yet another knock-off of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood--you know, an eclectic group of strong-willed, spirited women rely on each other through love, loss and everything in between. THEN I heard that the book is about WWII...more...
Andy (Aurora, CO)
Sat Jul 18 2009 14:40
I completely echo Sadie on this book. I've been so entrenched in Zombie novels that I sort of forgot what it was like to read something from the living's perspective, and I'm glad I did get back to that. I really like epistolary novels. In fact, I do believe that I wrote a paper in college about ...more...
Jess (Altoona, PA)
Fri Dec 25 2009 09:48
I devoured this book! After hearing only good things about this book, I was still a little hesitant because I didn't know whether I would like the letter format of the post-WWII setting. Nevertheless, once I started it, I could not put it down! The letter format really added to the story--it allowed...more...
Cornflower (Edinburgh, The United Kingdom)
Mon Jul 14 2008 06:14
This is an utter joy of a book, beautifully judged, witty, lively, almost Mitfordesque at times, sparky, extremely touching, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
In early 1946 the popular writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a Guernsey farmer, who happens to have ac...more...
Maudeen (Port Townsend, WA)
Sat Aug 09 2008 23:47
I knew right off I would enjoy this book when I read reviews saying it was reminiscent of Helene Hanff’s classic 84 Charing Cross Road, a series of letters between a New York City book lover and a clerk in the London bookstore. A book I loved so much that when in London I sought out its location ...more...
Cindy (Orem, UT)
Sat Feb 07 2009 23:27
I *LOVED* this book.
Writer Juliet Ashton has come through World War II more or less intact, although her flat was destroyed by bombs. But she's doing all right and ready to start a new project. Around then, she starts a correspondence with Dawsey Adams, an inhabitant of the tiny island ...more...
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