The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Book Review

By admin, on July 3rd, 2010

Product Details

Paperback: 290 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback; 1st Thus. edition (May 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385341008
ISBN-13: 978-0385341004

About The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

My Review

What more can I say about this book? Except pick it up and read it. Is it the greatest book you will ever read? I personally don’t think so, But and easy read with a wonderful story and characters is what awaits you as you open up the pages.

This book is written as a series of letters between author Juliet Ashton and the members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (with Juliet’s publisher, some friends and her boyfriend thrown in for good measure). The German invasion after the war is over and the members of the society are trying to get their lives back together when one of their members decides to write to Juliet to tell her of a book he came across that once belonged to her. This begins a story that unfolds through each life of the member of the society, and how Juliet reacts to their letters.

Extremely well written and easy to read, this book will be hard to put down. Each character is extremely well written, even if they only have a small part in the book. And, to read what these people went through during the war makes me realize again how lucky I am to be an American, and too young to have lived through anything of this magnitude.

About Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer who passed away in February 2008, worked as an editor, librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel.