Intrigue

In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.

A correspondence begins between Juliet Ashton (Lily James) and members of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, with them sharing their experiences of Nazi-occupied Guernsey Island. When an idea for a book catches Juliet, she goes to visit the island, making life-long friends and taking life changing steps along the way. This book is told by way of letters, and as the reader, you become enchanted by the writers of them and the love Juliet comes to feel for each of the Islanders; Dawsey Adams (Michiel Huisman), Amelia Maugery (Dame Penelope Wilton), Isola Pribby (Katherine Parkinson), Eben Ramsey (Sir Tom Courtenay), Kit (Florence Keen), and Elizabeth McKenna (Jessica Brown Findlay).—Cathryn McDowell

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.—yusufpiskin

London after the Second World War. Juliet Ashton works as a journalist and author in the city and tries to put the traumatic memories of the war behind her. Her publisher Sidney is trying to organize a reading tour for her across the country, and her fiancé Mark wants to take her to his home state of New York. She puts them both off for the time being, not yet knowing what to expect from life. One day she receives an unusual letter, sent by Dawsey Adams, a farmer from the Channel Island of Guernsey, who has acquired an antiquarian book that previously belonged to Juliet. A lively correspondence ensues, during the course of which Juliet learns of the existence of the "Guernsey Friends of Poetry and Potato Peel Casserole": In 1941, Dawsey, Elizabeth McKenna, Eben Ramsey, Amelia Maugery and Isola Pribby were walking on the Nazi-occupied British Channel island of Guernsey under strict curfew and were stopped by armed German soldiers. To avoid arrest, Elizabeth unceremoniously invented the book club with the unusual name to explain the late walk home. Juliet is curious and sets off for Guernsey. There, however, she is not exactly welcomed with open arms; Isola in particular reacts indignantly to her questions - and Elizabeth apparently no longer lives on the island. Little by little, Juliet learns a secret that the members of the club are afraid to reveal. However, her stay in Guernsey and especially her encounter with Dawsey will change her life forever.

At the end of the 1940s, young London writer Juliet Ashton (Lily James) receives an unusual letter from the remote Channel Island of Guernsey. The sender turns out to be the literature-loving farmer Dawsey Adams (Michiel Huisman), who asks her for help in finding a special book. A stimulating exchange of letters ensues, in which Juliet learns that Dawsey, together with other islanders, founded a literary society with the strange name "Guernsey Friends of Poetry and Potato Peel Casserole" during the German occupation. The reading circle was originally set up as a white lie to legitimize a secret roast pork dinner among neighbors and the subsequent walk home during the night curfew from a Nazi patrol. To keep the legend alive, the three women and two men met regularly and with increasing enthusiasm to recite poetry and read their favorite books to each other. The book club helped them through the Second World War and the humiliation of the occupation. That's why the reading circle continued to exist after the war and is now reason enough for Juliet to travel to Guernsey to find out more about it. Although her publisher (Matthew Goode) was about to send her on a reading tour, she would rather take some time out. The writer is warmly welcomed by the club members and quickly becomes fascinated by the rugged beauty of the island and its inhabitants. She is particularly taken with the single parent Dawsey, although her fiancé, US soldier Markham Reynolds (Glen Powell), is waiting for her in London. She decides to stay longer and write about the unusual book club. In the process, she discovers a sad secret about its founder, Elizabeth McKenna (Jessica Brown Findlay), who is nowhere to be found.—MDR