Book Business' The Best We Read 2012
We asked staff and contributors to tell us about the best books they read in the last year.
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Peggy Hatch, Group President
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press, 2009)
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Written in a series of letters, the story starts in London in 1946. Reeling from the war, with rationing in full tilt, Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a farmer on the channel island of Guernsey. He’d gotten a used book by Charles Lamb that had Juliet’s name written on the inside cover and was hoping she could help him find another book about the author. Guernsey had been occupied by the Nazis and completely cut off during the war, but a wonderfully charming and eccentric group of characters had started a book club that kept them going through those dark years.
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