I have been wanting to read the book “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows for quite some time. The title was very intriguing, but the thought of letters written to each other to form a novel, well, it threw me off for a while from reading it. A couple of the patrons here (thank you ladies) encouraged me to read it, saying it was very good. I broke down, checked out the book and haven’t put it down since.
The book starts off as letters between an author, Juliet, and her publisher, Sidney. She is thinking of a topic to write for her next novel after writing a best selling series during World War II. She receives a letter about a literary group on the British Isle of Guernsey, sparking her interest in the occupation by the German soldiers during the war. The letters between the literary society and Juliet are sincere, heartwarming, and encouraging. It made you feel like you were listening to a conversation between two of your oldest friends.