“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.” 

I don’t know how this can be when you consider the subject matter but the genre for this novel is most readily classified as “uplift literature”. Indeed it is currently number 5 on the following list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5035.Uplifting_Fiction. Not the kind of genre I go for but somehow I am guessing this is one of the best examples of it’s type?

I bought the book because it was on sale by audible and had a lot of recommendations from my GR friends and as always they did not steer me wrong. It’s told in an epistolary format and is principally about the lives of members of a book club in wartime (WWII) and postwar Guernsey. Probably due to its epistolary format, it strongly reminded me of 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff but with a strong and sometimes wicked sense of humour. Let's say the leading character in this book gives one of the best reasons not to marry someone that I have heard to date (I am in absolute agreement! :)).

This is recommended to Historical and Uplift Fiction lovers, to people who believe that reading books and novels can change your life, and to silly old romantics that don’t mind a cry and a laugh.

Also, the audio version of the book read by Charlie Norfolk is highly recommended. She was bl**dy excellent!