1. She worked as an editor, a librarian and a bookkeeper before starting to write her first book.
2. The popular book club selection called The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel.
3. Because she became too ill with cancer to finish the book, she asked her niece Annie Barrows (a children's author) to help her.
4. Mary Ann died a few months before the novel was published in 2008.
Have you read it?
