Besides being a great tongue-twister, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow’s The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society proves to be a satisfying quick read that will make readers demand for more.

Travel back to London in 1946. Here, Juliet Ashton, a British write comes across a letter from a stranger who is a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Intrigued by the name of the society, she responds back to the letter. This then begins the friendship of Juliet and the people of the small community of the post-German-occupied Guernsey, who will change her life forever.

Guerney is an epistolary novel, which means it is written in a series of letters. Readers will be able read through the voices of several characters along with Juliet’s. Though it may sound like a daunting and confusing task to read a book composed of only letters, Shaffer and Barrow managed to make it not painful at all. Through these letters, readers will fall in love with the characters through their charming and funny words.

The only down-side of the novel was that it was too short. However, if someone is in need of a light, but yet delightful, quick read, this is the book to be read.