Hi Everyone!
This is a novel more adults will have read as it is, strictly speaking, an adults' book. But i read it recently and loved it although it was very emotional and made me feel like crying! It is also a epistolary book, meaning it is written in letters. This can be hard to understand, but i adored it and didn't find it that confusing, although others say they have. Enjoy!
The main character, Julie Ashton is looking for an idea for a new book. It is set just after the second world war and she starts by sending letters backwards and forwards with her agent as well as her best friend.
Then she receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey who somehow got a book with her name inside. They start corresponding and she is told about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, made up as a cover up story when the occupied Guernsey inhabitants break the curfew.
She starts writing to the other Society members and is invited to go to Guernsey. There she meets them all and learns of their experiences. One of their friends was sent to a concentration camp and left her 4 year old daughter behind. She learns of her horrible experience too.
There are many more surprises that i am bursting to share but i will refrain myself to leave you to discover it. It is such a sad book and one that really touched me.
Let me know in the comments if you have read it and what you thought as it is really one of those books you either love or hate!
Enjoy!
This is a novel more adults will have read as it is, strictly speaking, an adults' book. But i read it recently and loved it although it was very emotional and made me feel like crying! It is also a epistolary book, meaning it is written in letters. This can be hard to understand, but i adored it and didn't find it that confusing, although others say they have. Enjoy!
The main character, Julie Ashton is looking for an idea for a new book. It is set just after the second world war and she starts by sending letters backwards and forwards with her agent as well as her best friend.
Then she receives a letter from a resident of Guernsey who somehow got a book with her name inside. They start corresponding and she is told about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, made up as a cover up story when the occupied Guernsey inhabitants break the curfew.
She starts writing to the other Society members and is invited to go to Guernsey. There she meets them all and learns of their experiences. One of their friends was sent to a concentration camp and left her 4 year old daughter behind. She learns of her horrible experience too.
There are many more surprises that i am bursting to share but i will refrain myself to leave you to discover it. It is such a sad book and one that really touched me.
Let me know in the comments if you have read it and what you thought as it is really one of those books you either love or hate!
Enjoy!
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