The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In January 1946, as London digs out from the Second World War, writer Juliet Ashton is casting about for her next book when a letter arrives from a man named Dawsey Adams on the island of Guernsey. He found her name and address written inside a used copy of a Charles Lamb collection and wrote to ask her help finding more of the author's work. Juliet's reply opens a growing correspondence with Dawsey and the other members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club invented on the spot as an alibi when its founders were caught out after curfew by the occupying Germans. Through their letters Juliet learns how the islanders leaned on books and on one another through five years of occupation, and how one beloved member, Elizabeth, was taken away and never returned. Drawn deeper into their lives, Juliet travels to Guernsey and finds the community, and the future, she did not know she was missing.