About forty-five minutes into this eight-hour novel, I was on the verge of giving up. I liked the writing and the pace but I couldn’t engage with the apparently privileged middle-class characters sharing light-weight banter about publishing and book tours, immediately after the end of World War Two. They and the book seemed to lack … Continue reading “The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows – epistolary novel packed with strong voices and deep emotions