The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

I borrowed this book from Mom, who read it for her book club and it was probably one of the more enjoyable books that I've read recently.

Written by Mary Ann Shafer (I've never read anything else by her before...) it's an epistolary (thank you, English major) novel about a British female author in the aftermath of WWII who is trying to write another book after the success of her first one. She ends up by chance corresponding with a man who lives on Guernsey Island and gets wrapped up in the lives of those who live there.

It was funny and sad and touching and entertaining all at the same time. I read most of it on the plane ride back to New York and then finished up the last bit in the next two nights. I haven't read a book that fast in awhile...