Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows · 2008 · sea

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's 2008 epistolary novel follows a London writer who, through a chance correspondence, discovers a book society formed on Guernsey during the wartime German occupation, and travels to the island to tell its story. The route crosses from London to the Channel Islands.

1. 1
   London

   In 1946 the London writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter out of the blue from a man on Guernsey, and is drawn into the story of a book club born under German occupation.

2. 2
   Weymouth

   She takes the train down to the Dorset coast and boards the mail boat that has long linked the mainland to the Channel Islands.

3. 3
   Guernsey

   On Guernsey she meets the members of the Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and pieces together the fate of Elizabeth, its brave founder, lost to the war.