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

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—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

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—Elaine Petrocelli, Book Passage, Corte Madera and San Francisco, California

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—Sarah Addison Allen, author of Garden Spells

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—Carla Cohen, Politics and Prose, Washington, DC