The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Across the English Channel there are small islands that like to be a place all to themselves. The Channel Islands, Guernsey and Jersey, Herm, Sark and Alderney. During the big war the Germans misunderstood that Great Britain would not defend them and so the inhabitants had to fend for themselves.

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

created a story of the letters of the inhabitants of Guernsey and an author who corresponded after the war. The book reads like you have discovered a box of letters from the past, as the writers share stories and books across the channel.

I loved the book discussions, but somehow I still do not have a hankering for English food, except the crumpets with rhubarb preserves and tea without milk.

This is week eight and there are still so many books to read, carry on!