27th March, 1946
Dear Miss Ashton,
Amelia Maugery has asked me to write to you, for
I am a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel Pie Society—though I only read one book over and
over. It was The Letters of Seneca: Translated from
Latin in One Volume, with Appendix. Seneca and the
Society, betwixt them, kept me from the direful life of
a drunk...
From John Booker to Juliet, The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
"I can't remember the last time I
discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one,
a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work
of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful
that I kept forgettingthey weren't my actual friends and
neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please—I can't
recommend it highly enough."
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of
Eat, Pray, Love
"THE
GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY is
a gem. [It] is like no other book I've ever read and it's
outstanding."
Elaine Petrocelli, Book Passage,
Corte Madera and San Francisco, California
"Mary
Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have written a wondrous,
delightful, poignant book—part Jane Austen, part history
lesson. The letters in The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel Pie Society aren't addressed to you, but they
are meant for you. It's a book everyone should read. An
absolute treasure."
Sarah
Addison Allen, author of Garden
Spells
"A delightful, delightful novel.
I fell in love with the inhabitants of Guernsey."
Valerie Koehler, Blue Willow
Bookshop, Houston, Texas
"The book is a total winner! It has
incredibly wide appeal and is a charming homage to the
power of books and reading."
Carla Cohen, Politics and Prose,
Washington, DC