BOOK DETAILS: Book Title : The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Author : Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ISBN : Publisher : Dial Press Genre : Historical Fiction Publication : 2008 Pages : 277 Format : E-book BOOK BLURB: January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb…. As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers t
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