The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - a Novel

While talking about this project to my mother-in-law, she mentioned that she had recently read a book that took place on Guernsey.  Naturally, I was interested, since I'd warmly welcome another form of research outside of academic papers.  The 2008 novel is called The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

From what I've heard it's made up of letter correspondences between England and Guernsey directly after World War II.  I know the German occupation of the Channel Islands and the evacuation of most of the children to Britain during the war played a huge role in the decline of Guernesiais.  Hopefully there will be a bit of insight into the language use during this time, but either way I was in need of a book for my travels to Montréal this week.  My Anthropology Student Union is attending the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meeting, also known as the 'mack daddy of conferences' as my prof put it.

I've continued on with a few more of the BBC Guernesiais lessons and I'm wondering how I should proceed from here.  Perhaps I could compile my own vocabulary and common phrase lists or perhaps focus more on the pronunciation and orthography? Hmm...