This was a very sweet book. I really enjoy reading books set during or shortly after World War II- I'm not sure why, but even as a kid I was drawn to these stories about survival and holding onto hope. I'm also a sucker for books written in letter format- another thing I've loved since I was a kid. So this was basically set up to be a book that I was bound to enjoy. And I certainly did like this quite a lot. It's sweet and fun and the characters seem like such lovely people that I wanted only good things for all of them. I had never heard of the occupation of the British islands (south of England but just north of France) and found this story to have some very interesting new facts to learn about the war. Most of all I just enjoyed my time reading this book and found it to be a lot of fun, which is probably the most important aspect of any book.