The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Movie Tie-In Edition) : A...

Description: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER BY Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barros The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Mr. Sidney Stark, Publisher Stephens & Stark Ltd. 21 St. James's PlaceLondon S.W.1England Dear Signey, Susan Scott is a wonder. We sold over forty copies of the book, which was very pleasant, but much more thrilling form my standpoint was the food. Susan managed to procure ration coupons for icing sugar and real eggs for the meringue. If all her literary luncheons are going to achieve these heights, I won't mind touring about the country. Do you suppose that a lavish bonus could spur her on to butter? let's try it- you may deduct the one from my royalties. Now for my grim news. You asked me how work on my new book is progressing. Sidney, it isn't English Foibles seemed so promising at first. After all, one should be able to write reams about the Society to Protest the Glorification of the English Bunny. I unearthed a photograph of the Vermin Exterminators' Trade Union, marching down an Oxford street with placards screaming "Down with Beatrix Potter!" But what is there to write about after a caption? No thing, that's what. I no longer want o write this book- my head and my heart just aren't in it. Dear as Izzy Bickerstaff is- and was-to me- I don't wan tot write anything else under that name. I don't want. JANUARY 1946: Writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of something allied the Gernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation and os a society as extraordinary as its name. "Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naive...it's tempting to throw around terms like 'gem' when reading a book like this. But Guernsey is not precious...This is a book for firesides or long train rides. It's as charming and timeless as the novels for which its characters profess their love.SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE [The] characters step form the past radiant with eccentricity and kindly humour. [The] writing, with its delicately offbeat, self-deprecating stylishness, is exquisitely turned." THE GUARDIAN "I've never wanted to join a club so desperately as I did while reading Guernsey. ....[The novel] is a labor of love and it shows on almost every page.' THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR "I could not put the book down. I have recommended it to all my friends." NEWSDAY

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