The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008
In 1946, a London writer begins exchanging letters with a Guernsey farmer and the literary society he belongs to—born under occupation from a secret roast pig.
Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, before the novel was published; her niece Annie Barrows, a children's author, completed the manuscript.
Feels like tenderness, friendship and humor.
What if the loneliest thing is being unable to be silent with someone?
Do you suppose the St. Swithin’s furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment. And he had that beautiful black hair. After that, you remember, came the Year of Poets. Sidney’s quite snarky about those poets, though I don’t see why, since he introduced me to them. Then poor Adrian. Oh, there’s no need to recite the dread rolls to you, but Sophie—what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with. Books by Mary Ann Shaffer
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