Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Treat yourself to this book, please - I highly recommend it.

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some hidden instinct in books that leads them to their ideal readers."

January 1946: London emerges from the womb of World War II, and author Juliet Ashton searches for the subject of her next book. Who would have imagined she'd find it in a letter from a man she'd never met, a native of Guernsey, who found her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...

As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, she is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—what an eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—which sprang up as a spontaneous pretext when the Germans occupying their island discovered its members breaking curfew—features a charming, funny, and very human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, all lovers of literature. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Fascinated by their stories, she sails to Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.