TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaffer,Mary Ann
AU  - Barrows,Annie
TI  - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
SN  - 9780385341004
AV  - PS3619.H3365 G84 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dial Press
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Book clubs (Discussion groups)
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Guernsey
KW  - England
N1  - Maps on lining papers
N2  - 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
ER  -