- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
I picked this book up at the library after seeing the title. See, hubby and I spent our honeymoon on Guernsey. In fact we got stranded on Guernsey when it snowed and the entire island shut down. But that's another story.
I knew some of the history of the island (one of the Nazi bunkers was turned into an aquarium that we visited) but it's hard to imagine what the islanders went through during World War II seeing the way things looked nearly twenty years ago, and imagine things have changed even more since then.
This book was wonderful. Sweet, laugh out loud funny in places, and sad as well. Bits of history interspersed with the fictional tale fascinated me.
(Added note: Hubby has now picked up the book and has read at least half just today. His opinion so far? Odd. But good. Lol.)
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