The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
$15.00
Paperback: 290 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback; 1st Thus. edition (May 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385341008
ISBN-13: 978-0385341004
Annotation/Flashtalk:After six months of nothing to eat but potatoes and turnips would you risk being caught eating a smuggled pig? Would you be able to think on your feet in the face of the German occupying forces who caught you out after curfew? What is a Potato Peel Pie? Find out how the members of Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society came to be in this heart-warming novel by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows.
Summary:It is through a bit of serendipity that author Juliet Ashton becomes acquainted with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Juliet is contacted after one of her former books winds up in the hands of Dawsey Adams. Dawsey contacts Juliet to learn more about the book’s author Charles Lamb and to ask for the name of a London bookshop where he might obtain more of Mr. Lamb’s writings. Dawsey feels a kinship to Mr. Lamb after what he and the other literary society members went through during the German occupation. Set just after WWII’s German occupation of the British Channel Islands, this epistolary novel tells the tale of how a British author befriends a group of people, who themselves only came together under the ruse of a lie to survive the hardships of war.
As the tale unfolds we learn about the island, the occupation, and the story of how Dawsey, Booker, Isola, Ameila, Elizabeth, Eben, Clovis and Will became the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The common thread in all of their stories is the quick-thinking Elizabeth who saved them by inventing the literary society as their excuse for being out after curfew. Elizabeth, now gone from the island, is not missing from the hearts of the society members, as they take turns raising Elizabeth’s daughter Kit until she can return.
Genre/Subgenre: Historical Fiction/Epistolary
Evaluation: 4-stars.
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback; 1st Thus. edition (May 5, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385341008
ISBN-13: 978-0385341004
Annotation/Flashtalk:After six months of nothing to eat but potatoes and turnips would you risk being caught eating a smuggled pig? Would you be able to think on your feet in the face of the German occupying forces who caught you out after curfew? What is a Potato Peel Pie? Find out how the members of Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society came to be in this heart-warming novel by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows.
Summary:It is through a bit of serendipity that author Juliet Ashton becomes acquainted with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Juliet is contacted after one of her former books winds up in the hands of Dawsey Adams. Dawsey contacts Juliet to learn more about the book’s author Charles Lamb and to ask for the name of a London bookshop where he might obtain more of Mr. Lamb’s writings. Dawsey feels a kinship to Mr. Lamb after what he and the other literary society members went through during the German occupation. Set just after WWII’s German occupation of the British Channel Islands, this epistolary novel tells the tale of how a British author befriends a group of people, who themselves only came together under the ruse of a lie to survive the hardships of war.
As the tale unfolds we learn about the island, the occupation, and the story of how Dawsey, Booker, Isola, Ameila, Elizabeth, Eben, Clovis and Will became the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The common thread in all of their stories is the quick-thinking Elizabeth who saved them by inventing the literary society as their excuse for being out after curfew. Elizabeth, now gone from the island, is not missing from the hearts of the society members, as they take turns raising Elizabeth’s daughter Kit until she can return.
Genre/Subgenre: Historical Fiction/Epistolary
Evaluation: 4-stars.
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