The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in Reading with Style

Feb 07, 2016 Rosemary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It's 1946 and writer Juliet Ashton is at a loose end. The humorous articles she was writing during the war have been collected into a successful book, and when the exhausting promotional tour is over, she's ready to move on to something new. Then a letter arrives from Guernsey, where one of the books lost from her bombed-out flat has ended up. Slowly she's drawn into the story of a small group of Guernsey residents who formed a literary society as an excuse to meet during the German occupation o ...more

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Feb 08, 2014 GONZA rated it really liked it

Beautiful book, delicate, sweet and funny. A few times I had fun and got emotional at the same time as with this book and its unpredictable characters. Juliett and Isola will remain for long time in my memory, as well as Elisabeth, the great absent. Now I'd really like to visit this island of Guernsey, which ignored the existence ....

Libro bello, delicato, dolce e divertente. Poche volte mi sono divertita e commossa allo stesso tempo come con questo libro e i suoi imprevedibili personaggi. Julie ...more

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Nov 01, 2011 Nancy rated it liked it

Shelves: 2010-books, 2019-books

3.5 stars. This was my second time reading this book as my book club picked it for this month. It was a 3.5 star rating for me nine years ago and it is the same today.

I liked learning/remembering little tidbits of the German occupation of the island of Guernsey during World War II and I think I would love to visit there some day but the story was just okay for me. I don’t care for the format of the whole book being told through letters. It felt flat.

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