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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Author(s): Mary Ann Shaffer

Location(s): Guernsey

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1946

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1946 and the book forms a series of letters, mainly to and from the central character, Juliet Ashton, who is a successful writer and who becomes involved with a group of people on Guernsey who have lived through the German Occupation in WW2. Human foibles and traits and virtues abound in this beautiful book

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A warm and sensitive read, and informative about the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands. J M Passmore

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In 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...

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Expressive, magical, and utterly remarkable, this epistolary narrative charms, penetrates, and has irresistible perspective

If this review and the promise of exquisite scenery, intelligent conversation, wry flirtations, and heartening nostalgia found within the pages of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society won’t convince you to give the book a try, I...

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