Granny Pheen Character Analysis in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Isola's grandmother; Pheen is short for Josephine. As a young girl, Pheen's father drowned her cat. A man stopped to comfort Pheen, explained that he could commune with cats' spirits, and over the course of a year, he sent her eight letters detailing Pheen's cat's new life as a French cat. Pheen kept the letters in a biscuit tin and left them to Isola. In the present, Juliet helps to discover that the letters were written by Oscar Wilde.

Granny Pheen Character Timeline in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The timeline below shows where the character Granny Pheen appears in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

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...goat ate her notes, so she read letters that a man had written to her Granny Pheen instead. Supposedly, when Granny Pheen was a young girl, her father had drowned her cat.... (full context)

Granny Pheen was so entranced she forgot to cry. The man helped Pheen up and promised to... (full context)

...writes to Sidney. She believes the letters were written by Oscar Wilde and thinks that Granny Pheen would be so happy to have people interested in her letters. Isola says that she's... (full context)

Isola writes to Sidney. She's very happy that he's coming to look at Granny Pheen 's letters; she thought the sub-editor was nice but uninteresting. He did, however, introduce Isola... (full context)