I now have time to read!!!! The first book I selected begins:
"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she'd never met, a native of Guernsey, the British island once occupied by the Nazis. He'd come across her name on the flyleaf of a secondhand volume by Charles Lamb. Perhaps she could tell him where he might find more books by this author.
Life is truly stranger than fiction, though!
Shortly after the hubby and I started seeing each other, I was browsing through some of his books on his bookshelf. You can tell the soul of a person most times by what you find on their bookshelf!
Imagine my surprise when I picked up a tattered paperback edition of "Wuthering Heights" and found my daughter's name written inside the front cover!
She had been assigned this book to read in her high school literature class; after reading, we had boxed up her book along with many other paperbacks and sold them to the secondhand store. The hubby, in turn, bought this very same book at a different secondhand bookstore some months later (long before we even met).
For me "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" had a special pull, screaming 'Pick me!' as it sat on the library shelf. I'm glad I did. It was a pleasant read, with interesting twists in the plot and a happy ending. I can imagine this story happening because it already has! *S*
