by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · The Dial Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385340991
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«The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society» is the epistolary novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, published by The Dial Press in hardback (288 pages, in English).
It is 1946 and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for a new subject for her work when she receives a letter from an unknown resident of the island of Guernsey. Through the exchange of letters she discovers the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, born as an improvised alibi during the German occupation, and its eccentric members, book lovers who found comfort and resistance in reading. Fascinated by their stories, Juliet travels to the island and her life changes forever.
Novel originally published in 2008 by The Dial Press. The work was written by Mary Ann Shaffer and completed by her niece Annie Barrows.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction set in the Second World War and for those who enjoy epistolary stories about friendship and the power of books.
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.
