This book is written as a series of letters from a female author to those she is close with and new friends. The book is set just after WWII and it is all about this author who receives a letter from a man on the island of Guernsey. He talks about how they started a literary society during the war a...
“The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other."--John Irving, The World According to Garp The Truth According to Us finds Layla Beck, a disowned socialite, working on relief for the WPA to writ...
I just inhaled most of this book after handing in my dissertation this morning. The story of an unconventional Literary Society formed during the German occupation of Guernsey during the Second World War and a London writer's new friendship with its members and told entirely in letters, it is a joyf...
In the aftermath of WWII England author Juliet Ashton is riding the wave from her previous book and looking for a subject for the next. Juliet unexpectedly receives a letter from a man, Dawsey, who lives on the island of Guernsey. Guernsey was occupied by the Germans during the War and materials s...
I read this book because it is the selection for the book club at my church. It is not the usual genre I would read, but I did truly enjoy this story. The book is very different in that the entire story is told through the correspondence of letters or telegram. The setting is England, 1946 and J...
I have a strange fascination towards epistolary novels. I feel the letter format always keeps me hooked until I finish it. With each new letter there is always a new revelation about the main storyline as well as the characters. Well this is one of the main reason I took up ‘The Guernsey Literary an...
This book reminded me a lot of [b:The Soldier's Wife|10518423|The Soldier's Wife|Margaret Leroy|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1405114408s/10518423.jpg|15424477], which I much preferred over [b:The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society|2728527|The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society...
Perhaps this review is a bit biased because I feel as if I've just read the same book twice. I started this book just after finishing Still Life with Bread Crumbs, a book I didn't much care for. Unfortunately, this book seemed like the exact same novel, set in a separate location and time period. Bo...
I am a very 50/50 kind of person. Half introvert/half extravert. Half cynic/half optimist. I could go on and on. Sometimes I like this about myself, sometimes I don’t. See what I mean? This book really appealed to a particular half of me - the part, for example, that is willing to admit tha...
This book is written in the form of letters that are sent from friend to friend. You have to pay attention to who is writing to whom because there are a lot of characters. There were also times when I had to put the book down because I felt so overwhelmed from so many of them. The story was interest...
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