Book Review

Juliet Ashton has just finish writing her book Izzy Bickerstaff Goes to War and is looking for a idea - a spark for a new book , when she receives a letter from a man named Dawsey Adams from the island of Guernsey, a British island recently occupied by Germany. Mr. Adams is in procession of a book once own by Juliet, and is enquiring information on more books by the same author, as there isn't any bookshops left on Guernsey. From that letter to Juliet, a friendship is born between Juliet and all the members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This book is written as a series of letters from Juliet or to Juliet from a variety of people. The characters come alive as one reads their letters telling about this once occupied island and what life was like under the Nazi army. Slowly, Juliet sees a story to tell immerge as she reads their letters and is too drawn into their lives. A wonderful story very well written by Mary Ann Shaffer and her niece Annie Barrows.