Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

I rarely say this, but some books belong on the screen instead of the page. I expected something in the vein of 84 Charing Cross Road, but instead, this felt like sifting through a stack of hastily written summer camp letters that all showed up in one overwhelming batch. The epistolary format might have seemed like a clever gimmick, but so did Tai Bo—and we all know how that turned out. In the end, the only redeeming quality was the word potato in the title. Everything else? A literary spud.