The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows 2008, 274 Pages. What a peculiar title for yet another WW11 historical novel. But it is totally appropriate for this story based on the experiences of natives of the channel island during the five year German occupation, who use a false literary society meeting as a spur-of-the-moment excuse for being out after curfew, then develop as a real society to discuss literature and maintain some sanity. The entire book consists of letters, telegrams and memos written in 1946 by those natives and some English and Scottish folk, the most significant one being a wannabe London novelist who eventually visits Guernsey to write a novel about the occupation. The horrors of the German occupation are not glossed over, but a few German soldiers are portrayed favourably. The restrained attitudes and moral norms of the era are on full display, and the characters are varied, colourful and realistic. Unlike most modern novels there is absolutely no vulgar language nor graphic pornography. I had some difficulty keeping the characters straight in the first part characters and had to keep going back to start of the letters to figure out who was writing to whom. And don’t pay too much attention to the dates of the letters. I enjoyed this and learned a lot about a part of the world that is seldom featured in either novels or history texts of the war.