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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\nThis is probably the only famous book by an aunt-niece duo, Mary Ann Shaffer\u2019s only book. She was encouraged to write the book by those who knew her at a book club. Though the book is remarkably \u2018English\u2019 as in British English in its tone, the authors are American. The story starts with an author who is struggling to write not her first but her second book. She receives a letter from Dawsey Adams from Guernsey, a town under German occupation. Her correspondence with a member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society leaves her intrigued and asking for more. The letters hold the stories of the German occupation and the remarkable courage that individuals display in times of moral ineptitude.<\/p>\n
What books on mathematics and pies do you love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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