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Amazon UK review

'Charming one to lift even the most cynical of spirits' The Times 'Thronging with lovable people golden comedy' Guardian 'What a gorgeous book - very touching and funny' Joanna Lumley 'Delightfully spirited and quirky novel-of-letters You'd have to be pretty hard-hearted not to fall under its spell' Daily Mail Books of the Year

`The society's members are quirky and lovable, their friendships touching and the letters so funny and moving that by the time she's considering a visit to the island we are desperate to go with her' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

I read this last year and loved it!

To be released at the Swindon Uncon.

I plucked this off the 'Table of Temptation' at the Swindon Unconvention, and hauled it by train, bus and plane home to SW France today. It was a great weekend with a crowd of fellow Book Crossers. I was thrilled to find this one on the table.

A delightful story written in letter form, with charming quirky characters that come to life in these pages. I enjoyed a visit to the Channel Islands about 50 years ago and became fascinated by the culture and history of the islands, particularly during WWII. Thank you so much Yorkshire-Lass for bringing this to Swindon and what fun to meet you and so many other BCers I'd only ever 'met' on-line.

I've offered this as a RABCK, but the members don't seem to be active still. Everyone that I thought might enjoy this around here has already read it. So...it will go on the OBCZ shelves in the morning. There must be someone out there who would like to read this great little book.

I hope this book goes somewhere exciting!

I was about to release this without having journalled it - shame on me!
This is a gentle story about a difficult subject - the Nazi occupation of Guernsey in WW2 - but it is cleverly woven around an author and her quest for a new book when she becomes involved with a reading club. The exchange of letters makes an interesting format (and easy to read when you're picking up a book and putting it down again because other priorities keep crowding in) and I found myself eager to find out who the characters were and how their individual stories linked up with the main thread. It would be unkind to reveal too much about the plotline.