The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society: rejacketed - Tapa blanda

Delightfully spirited . You'd have to be pretty hard-hearted not to fall under its spell (Daily Mail)

Utterly delightful (Helen Mirren)

Atmospheric and touching . it is about love and friendship and the ability of these qualities to survive adversity (Alexander McCall Smith The Times)

Thronging with lovable people (Guardian)

I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one . Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love)

What a gorgeous book - very touch and funny (Joanna Lumley)

Absolutely perfect and satisfying, and when you finish it you sit around wishing that you could find another book just like it (Stephanie Meyer)

Every now and again, a book comes along that is simple yet effective, readable yet memorable. This is one such delight . It is a uniquely humane vision of inhumanity; one to lift even the most cynical of spirits (The Times)

Funny, moving and quite unlike anything I have read for a long time (Sunday Telegraph)

Shaffer's writing, with its self-deprecating humour and jaunty stylishness, is a heart-warmingly nostalgic journey into another age (Independent)