In January 1946, while London is struggling to recover from the war, Juliet Ashton, young writer looking for a theme for his new novel. It will be brought to him by a Guernsey Island Drive: how people have managed to mislead occupants Germans managing to meet as a circle of lovers of literature and Potato Peel pie. She discovers how a small community overflowing with charm, humor and solidarity managed to survive in a difficult time even tragic. She eventually land on the island and be adopted by the islanders. A charming romance, tender and endearing. No doubt the reader's interest is it due to the mischievous eye of two authors who have expressed a range of feelings by focusing on many small details and facts of life full of realism. But also to the use of the unique transcription exchange of letters and telegrams between the characters which gives a particularly vivid style at work by dispensing soporific descriptions or hollow dialogues. A genuine success. A humanistic and sentimental book, but rose water.
