Shaffer, Mary Ann, <br/><br/>
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / 
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 
 - 290 pages :  maps ;  20 cm 
<br/><br/> Maps on lining papers. 
<br/><br/> 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. "Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naive . . . It's tempting to throw around terms like 'gem' when reading a book like this. But Guernsey is not precious. . . . This is a book for firesides or long train rides. It's as charming and timeless as the novels for which its characters profess their love."-San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "[The] characters step from the past radiant with eccentricity and kindly humour. [The] writing, with its delicately offbeat, self-deprecating stylishness, is exquisitely turned."-The Guardian (U.K.) "I've never wanted to join a club so desperately as I did while reading Guernsey. . . . [The novel] is a labor of love and it shows on almost every page."-The Christian Science Monitor "I could not put the book down. I have recommended it to all my friends."-Newsday.--Back cover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385341004 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women authors--Fiction<br/>Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>London (England)--History--20th century--Fiction<br/>Guernsey--Fiction<br/>England--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3619.H3365  / G84 2009