18.4.10

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

"I want to find some travel or history books about the Channel Islands too. Is it really true that on a clear day, you can see the cars on the French coast roads? So it says in my Encyclopedia, but I bought it secondhand for 4 shillings and I don't trust it. There I also learned that Guernsey is 'roughly seven miles long and five miles wide, with a population of 42,000 inhabitants.' Strictly speaking, very informative, but I want to know more than that."

2 comments:

jane .. said...

this is one of the most delightfull books i've read in awhile .. i trust you do sometimes read more than the first paragraph, page 55 ..

Sheila said...

Jane, yes, I have read all the books I take excerpts from!