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 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

"The year is 1946. Juliet lives in London, a city from which the pall of World War II has not yet lifted. Juliet, a single woman in possession of a promising literary career, receives a letter from one Dawsey Adams. He lives on a farm on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, he explains, and he has acquired a used book with Juliet's name and address written in it. Through Dawsey and his friends, we learn the story of the Germans' World War II occupation of the island, a bleak affair of starvation, humiliation and slave labor. We get to know a cast of scuffed, scarred Guernseyans who formed a book club as an alibi to keep their doings secret from curious Nazis." -- Time

Reviews, other books by the author from NoveList (Sonoma County Library card required for access from home) Publisher's page for this book Annie Barrows's website Interview with Annie Barrows from Powell's Books Find it in the Library: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Epistolary fiction (books written in the form of letters)