I arrived in PCB on Monday, December 15 and on Dec. 16 I wasted no time in getting to the library to reserve all the books I had listed for reading while 'm here in Florida. I was sitting at the computer, entering my hold requests when I heard a member mention the book title above. The librarian said she had that particular book in her hand right at that moment: she was in the process of phoning someone who had requested the book. Just at that time, I realized I should give the library my new phone number, and went up to the desk to do that, and saw that the person the librarian was calling was me! Someone had returned the book to the library, I had entered my hold request on it, another person had requested it, and I was being called- all within moments, it seemed.
The book's title comes from the society that was inadvertently formed during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the war, and from a pie that a book club member prepared for the club- with unusual ingredients because of food rations. One of the members contacts a newspaper columnist in England one year after the war, and the book continues from there. The whole book is written in letters between the columnist, her agents, her new friends in Guernsey, and so on. I didn't know the Germans had occupied Guernsey, so it was interesting from that aspect.
I'd give it three stars.
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