"I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren't my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please--I can't recommend it highly enough." - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Traditional without seeming stale, and romantic without being naive . . . It's tempting to throw around terms like 'gem' when reading a book like this. But Guernsey is not precious. . . . This is a book for firesides or long train rides. It's as charming and timeless as the novels for which its characters profess their love." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"[The] characters step from the past radiant with eccentricity and kindly humour. [The] writing, with its delicately offbeat, self-deprecating stylishness, is exquisitely turned." - The Guardian (U.K.)
"I've never wanted to join a club so desperately as I did while reading Guernsey... [The novel] is a labor of love and it shows on almost every page." - The Christian Science Monitor
"I could not put the book down. I have recommended it to all my friends." - Newsday
"A jewel . . . Poignant and keenly observed, Guernsey is a small masterpiece about love, war, and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends." - People
"A book-lover's delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary." - Chicago Sun-Times
"A sparkling epistolary novel radiating wit, lightly worn erudition and written with great assurance and aplomb." - The Sunday Times (London)
"Cooked perfectly à point: subtle and elegant in flavour, yet emotionally satisfying to the finish." - The Times (London)
"A sweet, sentimental paean to books and those who love them. . . . It affirms the power of books to nourish people enduring hard times." - The Washington Post Book World
"[A] marvelous debut . . . This is a warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining celebration of the power of the written word." - Library Journal
"A poignant, funny novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. . . . A treat." - The Boston Globe