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

This book is a series of letters written by Juliet the writer to her publisher, best friend, and a group of people on Guernsey Island which is one of the English Channel Islands. At first I found the letters amusing as Juliet searches for the topic for her next book. Her letters are bright and clipped and witty, particularly to Sidney her publisher and Mark her American pursuer. She uncovers a fellow named Dawson on Guernsey Island who shares the life of the islanders and their literary society born out of an excuse to foil some Nazis who found them breaking curfew. Juliet goes to the island and discovers much more. All the islanders love her. She learns about the brave Elizabeth who dies in a Nazi prison and leaves a young daughter on the island. Alas this all ends up with too many coincidences and a too happy an ending for my liking. Half way through the book, I was done. My mother in law liked this as I knew she would! Of interest is that the niece Annie Barrows edited and finished the book for her aunt who was dying of cancer (and it was the aunt's first book)