Il Club del libro e della torta di bucce di patata di Guernsey

In 1946 the London writer Juliet Ashton, tired of the war's aftermath and looking for her next book idea, receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a farmer on Guernsey who owns a book that once belonged to her. Their correspondence leads her to the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club invented during the German occupation to cover for an illegal pig roast. The novel is told entirely in letters, bringing in Elizabeth McKenna, who was taken to a camp, and her young daughter Kit.

If you like warm epistolary novels, island settings, and quiet historical fiction about ordinary people, this is a gentle choice. You leave with affection for its characters and a bit of history about the Channel Islands in wartime.

Clear-cut; an easy read.

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