The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press, 290 pages, $14). Thousands of books are published every year. Out of all these books it is very rare to find even one book that could be called a phenomenon. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" is such a book.
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The story behind the story of "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" begins with a would-be author, American Mary Ann Shaffer, stranded by fog in the Guernsey airport, scrounging snacks from vending machines and looking for something to read at the airport bookstore. There she happened upon a fascinating, little-known footnote of history -- the Nazis had occupied Guernsey and the other Channel Islands for five years during World War II.
It started with a discussion about a potato peel pie and took off in many unexpected directions. My small but cohesive book club of neighborhood women had just read "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," a charming book of letters that weave a story set in post-World War II England. The title takes its name from a pie supposedly shared by the society, when food was dangerously scarce on the German-occupied Channel Islands.
The Nazi hordes who invaded and occupied the British Channel Islands during World War II lived up to their reputation for brutality, but they met their match in the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, founded because of the death of a pig. There was no other part of British soil that suffered the misery of German occupation and there wasn't much that could be done about it locally from a military standpoint except live through it. The Germans initially viewed the Channel Islands as a stopping point on their way to London, and when it didn't turn out that way, they reacted with characteristic cruelty, starving the islanders and torturing those whom they brought from Europe to provide forced labor.
Annie Barrows, co-author of "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," will make two appearances Monday in the area. At 10 a.m. Barrows will sign books at Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley. Also, Guernsey Literary Dream Pie and coffee will be served. The event is free.
Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands, those small pieces of England that lie just off the coast of France. It's often forgotten that they make up the only British territory occupied by Germany in World War II, something that intrigued [Mary Ann Shaffer] enough to write this novel, and her protagonist to begin her own. In 1946 when Guernsey begins, Juliet Ash ton is on a book tour reading from her wartime newspaper columns, recently collected into a humorous and successful volume. But success makes her nervous about her next book and she worries over it to her publisher. And then she gets a letter from someone on Guernsey; he's bought a book by Charles Lamb that she once owned, and he wonders if she can suggest others by the same delightful author. Guernsey will be, unfortunately, Shaf...
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