The current featured contributor to
Writers Read: Annie Barrows, author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as
The Magic Half, and co-author of the acclaimed
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Her entry begins:
I've just started a reread of Our Mutual Friend. I read it years and years ago, and all I remember is great mountains of slime and trash and filth, but I know, given Dickens, that there's got to be more to it than that. I expect a virtuous but beleaguered girl to show up at any moment. In the meantime, I am riveted by the disgusting descriptions of the Thames. I have a deep personal interest in Victorian sanitation.[read on]
Visit
Annie Barrows' website.
Among the praise for
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society:
"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
Writers Read: Annie Barrows.
--Marshal Zeringue
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