Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society"

January 1946, London is emerging from the shadow of the war, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. There's a shortage of books, there's a shortage of everything in Britain at the time, but Juliet's spirits rise when she gets a letter by a Guernsey farmer who found her name and address in a second-hand volume of essays. From this first contact grows a web of correspondents, who fuel Juliet's interest in the Channel Islands, and especially wartime Guernsey and the tragicomic, intervowen stories of its people. The very diverse members of this unique and wonderfully down-to-earth "Literary Society", a charming, deeply human cast of characters, share their memories, some funny, some sad, with Juliet and with us, the readers. Level B2/C1