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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
JUST DIDN'T WANT IT TO END I loved this book, I just wanted it to go on and on.
Having moved over to Guernsey 8 years ago, this also made it really interesting, it made me laugh and made me cry.
I do agree it took a bit of time getting to grips with all the different characters but was worth it I then couldn't put it down.
Quite the charmer This is a very charming, immensely likeable book. The way it's written (in letter form) almost put me off, but so many people were telling me that I must read it and I'm glad I did. You quickly get used to the letter format and it's definitely an effective (albeit highly artificial) technique to communicate multiple points of view. I started to feel like I really knew these characters and I cared about them - with the exception of Dawsey, who to me remained oblique. I really liked Juliet's sense of humour... more info
"Days gone by" I don't normally read books that are written like this - in the form of letters even though I am a keen letter writer myself. But the title (and this is tuly shallow - I know!) made me buy it. It is lightweight in many ways but a real winner in so many others. The characters are beautifully revealed to the reader and I truly appreciated the delightful eccentricities of them, having come from a small community myself. It is a trip into the post war years when although the memories of recent atrocities still... more info
Quirky, warm and humorous - if lacking in depth "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is the first and final novel to be written by American writer Mary Ann Shaffer before her death in February 2008. Written in the form of a series of letters between the main characters, it is set in 1946 and concerns writer Juliet Ashton, searching both for love, and for a subject for her next book. When she receives a letter from a certain Dawsey Adams from the island of Guernsey, she quickly develops an interest in his story of life under German... more info
