The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society Book Review

The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society was a really clever gradual unfolding of friendship and the suffering undergone by the captive population of guernsey during the occupation of the third reich during the early 1940 s.

The guernsey literary and potato peel society book review. It was chatty and it was carefree in parts but oh it was so much more. Beginning early 1946 in london juliet ashton a british writer and former war journalist is emerging from the ashes of the war to rebuild her life and her identity. When the germans catch some islanders exiting from a late night pig roast the group as an excuse for violating curfew and food restrictions invents a book club. Juliet shares fascinating details about charles lamb s life with dawsey as the basis for their early correspondence.

As juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters she is drawn into the world of this man and his friends all members of the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society a unique book club formed in a unique spur of the moment way. I suppose i was expecting a chatty and carefree book that just skimmed over the tops of things. The literary and potato peel pie society is born affording guernseyites an excuse to meet and share meager repasts. Historical fiction world war ii.

The germans have confiscated all the real food. A correspondence leads to friendship between juliet and dawsey and a book idea for juliet. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society s charming deeply human members from pig farmers to phrenologist literature lovers all. The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society commemorates beautiful spirits who pass through our midst and hunker undercover through brutal times.

Juliet visits guernsey and ends up falling in love with the island its inhabits and most of all dawsey. As an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the germans. Mary ann shaffer and annie barrow s new book the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society is an opportunity to travel back in time to 1946 guernsey. The narrative is told through a series of letters exchanged between various characters with juliet ashton successful author as the principal letter writer.

The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society is a book that took me by surprise. The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society is rife with references to classic literature. Dial press genre. Praise for the guernsey literary and potato peel society a jewel.