The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
4 Stars
Historical Fiction, WWII
Setting: Guernsey
274 pages
Published 2008

Ellie's Review
This was a delightful read - the authors did a great job with creating a novel solely from letters amongst the characters. I learned new things about what Europe went through in World War II.

Book Summary
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….

Authors' Information
Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops. Her life-long dream was to someday write her own book and publish it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel. Unfortunately, she became very ill with cancer and so she asked her niece, Annie Barrows, the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half, to help her finish the book. Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, a few months before her first novel was published.