The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.” “Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” “It would have been better for her not to have such a heart. Yes, but worse for the rest of us.” Books, letters, notes, they all connect people. It only took one second-hand book by Charles Lamb for Dawsey to pen a letter to Juliet (its previous owner), a letter that would begin a flow of correspondence from Guernsey to London and back. Books were also the reason why a group of neighbours (who had made up a literary society to fool the Germans invading their island) became the best of friends by arguing and discussing about their favourite authors. When nearly everything has been taken from you: food, wood, children, pets, radios… literature, in all its shapes, is what keeps you sane and in touch with your humanity. Thanks to this multiple perspective narration we get to know what happened, even though in a fictional way, i
