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Guernsey potato peel literary thing = looks shit but is rather good

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InterruptingKid · 08/11/2009 18:17

soignore the whimsy and buy

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TheFoosa · 08/11/2009 19:02

is indeed rather good, I thought it might be in the stylee of Alexander McCall Smith but was quietly surprised

Horton · 08/11/2009 19:04

I really liked it too, and didn't expect to. I only bought it because it was cheap in Sainsburys and I'd run out of books.

InterruptingKid · 08/11/2009 19:42

yes but v good
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elliephant · 08/11/2009 19:47

Yes got this as a gift last christmas and only read recently when I had nothing else. Suprisingly good.

PutDown · 09/11/2009 20:51

Read it last year as I like anything to do with the war.Thought it very good.

CDMforever · 09/11/2009 20:55

OOHH! This is the next choice for my book group so glad to hear its good! Does look a bit twee!

Tn0g · 09/11/2009 20:56

Yes.

Very good.

Lilymaid · 09/11/2009 21:02

I didn't like it much though it might be OK for a holiday read (if you go to Guernsey). I'm probably a bit too much of stickler for historical accuracy but I can't warm to unlikely descriptions of people being wined and dined and showered with flowers in London in 1946 (hot house flowers when Europe was starving?)

Oumasrusks · 10/11/2009 14:53

I really enjoyed this book too.

pyjamalama · 10/11/2009 14:58

I really disliked it. It seemed to me to be very light fiction based on a really horrible traumatic period of history. And as Lilymaid says, a lot of it just didn't ring true.

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