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JULY 16, 2011
Staff Pick Week 4
This week I’m featuring my fourth and final staff pick, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (GLPPPS) by Mary Ann ShafferThis is an unusually written book as the entire story is told in letters and would be of interest to fans of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road.    The GLPPPS opens in 1946 right after the Second World War.  Guernsey is one of Great Britain’s Channel Islands occupied by the Germans during the war.  In the aftermath of the war, writer Juliet Ashton looked to the inhabitants of Guernsey as a topic for her next book.  The islander’s stories are told in letters to and from Ashton who ultimately travels to Guernsey to meet her correspondents.  The book centers on members of an impromptu book club launched by a spur-of-the-moment lie told by a handful of islanders in need of a quick alibi to avoid arrest for curfew violation.
Note: Sadly, the book’s author, Mary Ann Shaffer, died before the book was finalized. Her niece Annie Barrows (also a writer) worked putting the finishing touches and edits to the book for publication.


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