Friday Books - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

On Fridays I participate in BookBeginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader, and The Friday 56 - hosted by Freda’s Voice. Both involve sharing excerpts from a current book - the beginning and - you guessed it - page 56.

This week I'm featuring 

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Beginning:

Mr Sidney Stark, Publisher
Stephens & Stark Ltd
21 St James's Place 
London SW1
8th January 1946

Dear Sidney
Susan Scott is a wonder. We sold over forty copies of the book, but much more thrilling from my standpoint was the food. Susan managed to get hold of 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 the country.

Here's my P56:
It seems to me the less he said, the more beauty he made. Do you know what sentence of his I admire the most? It is 'The bright day is done, and we are for the dark.' I wish I'd known those words on the day I watched those German troops land, planeload after planeload of them, and come off those ships in the harbour.

After revisiting a "previously read" author (Anita Shreve) last week, with no small degree of trepidation, I was delighted. I LOVED that book. So this week, it's another oldie - I picked this up at a second hand book shop.

I read it about 5 years ago from book club, and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I bought this copy for a friend. It's a delightful tale, told in correspondence from writer Juliet Ashton and Dawsey Adams - a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It's about friendship, books and love. Don't be put off by the long-winded title. It's ageless and timeless and worth a read.

Here's the cover. A click will link to the Goodreads blurb.

Tell me what you're reading, and I'll pay you a visit. Happy reading everyone.