by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · Salamandra Bolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788418173264
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«The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society» is the epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, in Salamandra paperback.
Set in postwar London, the story follows young writer Juliet Ashton, who receives a letter from a stranger living on the island of Guernsey, Dawsey Adams. Reading it brings her into contact with an unusual book club born during the German occupation, and on visiting the island she discovers a group of characters marked by war and united by books.
This edition belongs to the Salamandra Campañas collection. It was originally published as «The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society» in 2008 and was adapted into a film by Mike Newell.
Recommended for fans of epistolary and historical fiction, books about books, and stories of the Second World War.
Mary Ann Shaffer was an American writer, editor, librarian, and a bookshop worker. She is noted for her posthumously published work The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which she wrote with her niece, Annie Barrows.
