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Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover, 2008, The Dial Press) 4 stars

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret …

Review of 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It's a sweet book. It starts out as a treatise on how the love of literature can spring up in the unlikeliest places, for the unlikeliest reasons. Then it becomes a series of harrowing vignettes on life in occupied Europe during WWII. And finally a simple love story, in which everyone involved is absolutely blind to the existence of the two star-crossed lovers.