The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Our Thoughts
This book is confusing at first, written as a series of letters, telegrams and journal entries by, to or about Juliet Ashton, the central character, unusually a features writer for a post WWII London newspaper, in search of her next book. A letter from a resident of Guernsey (a Channel Island), sets her off on a path towards learning their story of occupation and survial during the war and changes her life forever.
Fiction
Dial Press
2008
290
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
