I've been re-reading Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and I think I've enjoyed it even more the second time around. It was a highlight of last summer's books, and it might not have stood up to being revisited within a twelvemonth, but it has!
Here are last year's thoughts on it, and I quoted a few good lines the other day. Interestingly, the book's heroine Juliet Ashton became famous for her "Izzy Bickerstaff goes to War" columns in The Spectator, and I wonder if - in the writer's mind - they bore any similarity to Henrietta's letters in The Sketch?
What else to say other than to recommend it most highly to anyone who has yet to read it: you are in for a real treat!
