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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Journalist Juliet Ashton is hunting for a subject for her next book when she begins a correspondence with residents of isle of Guernsey. They tell her about their life under the Nazi occupation and how their book club kept them from being arrested by the Nazis and also kept them sane. Juliet becomes very attached to these people and their island and also discovers her next book project. This novel is written as a series of letters between Juliet, the islanders, and her friends and the audio format is great. You feel she is really talking to you about her experiences. And yes, you find out what a potato peel pie is and why the society was given that name.