The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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I don't know if any of you have read this but what an amazing book and would highly reccommend it. Very sweet, funny, sad and offers huge insights ito how the Channel ISlanders lived and survived during the occupation.

I read it a couple of weeks ago - it's definitely a very warm hearted book. I've been on several holidays to Guernsey and been to the places she mentions but this brings alive what it must have been like to live under an occupying force. Amazing considering the author wasn't actually from Guernsey.

What are you reading now?

A Val McDirmid. Never read but after I have read somthing that I really like, tend to do something easy and trashy to regroup my thoughts.

Read this last summer whilst in Jersey,loved it.
Have read somewhere that it is going to be made into a film/TV series?
Have read 'an Island Madness' by Tim Binding,set in occupied Guernsey.It is a murser mystery and darker than Guernsey Literary Society but very good.Also 'The Occupation' by Guy Walters.
Am very interested in this,as you can see!
PS For non fiction,try 'A model Occupation'..very good complete history of Occupation of Channel Islands.

I read it and was very disappointed. However, it would make a good film. Although the author had researched the book, there were some glaringly unbelievable bits in it - e.g. good food available in London in 1946 and availability of hot house flowers in that period.
I did enjoy the romance with the taciturn islander.

I read this recently and thought it was a lovely book, really well though out and great for a first novel. I'm glad that she got to write it and know that it was going to be published before she died.