The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008 1st edition

A delightful modern epistolary novel, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) was the debut work of American author Mary Ann Shaffer, completed with the assistance of her niece Annie Barrows. Set in post‑war Guernsey, it unfolds through letters between a London writer and the islanders who formed a reading society during the German occupation of World War II. Celebrated for its warmth, humour, and historical detail, the novel became a bestseller and was later adapted into the 2018 feature film starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer.

Published by Bloomsbury, London. First edition, 2008.

A very good cream linen hardback with printed title to spine. Housed in a very good dustjacket. Price clipped to inside flap. Now housed in removable clear protective plastic. Light wear to edges. Soundly bound. With cloth ribbon. Pictorial endpapers.

Text is clean and bright with mild age-toning. Some light spotting to rear free endpapers. Top edge with a couple of small stains.

Text in English.

243pp + (2).

Weight approximately 422g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 225mm high x 242mm wide x 27mm deep.