I read this book about three weeks ago for a book club, but it's the perfect post for Valentine's Day. The title may be long-winded and a bit confusing, but luckily this lovely book is not. The novel unfolds as a series of letters and journal entries (an epistolary novel for you English majors) between a London writer and a book group located on one of England's Channel Islands after the end of World War II.
The book is one of those rare treasures that is lovely and romantic, but is saved from overt cheesiness by being well-written. It also manages to work in historical details on the German occupied Channel Islands without making the story too dry or weighed down by data.
