In Guernsey, Juliet is treated like an old friend and soon helps to watch Kit.
The members of the Society are raising her child, Kit, among themselves until Elizabeth returns.Īs she continues to write to the members of the Society and they to her, Juliet begins to plan a trip to Guernsey to conduct research for a book about the group and their experiences of the war. Juliet also learns that Elizabeth McKenna, the Society's beloved founder, was arrested and sent to a prison in France by the Germans and has yet to return home. Mark proposes as Juliet is preparing to leave for Guernsey and she delays giving an answer, not wanting to repeat the error of her previous engagement. She is also intrigued that Adams is part of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and inquires about the group's name.Īfter learning that the society began as a cover for residents breaking curfew during the German occupation of Guernsey, Juliet begins a correspondence with several members of the Society, hoping to work them into an article she is writing on the benefits of literature for The Times Literary Supplement. Juliet helps to send him further books by Lamb. Juliet receives a letter from Dawsey Adams, a complete stranger from Guernsey who has come into possession of her copy of Essays of Elia and who wants to know more about the author, Charles Lamb. Reynolds makes it clear that he is a fan, and she and Reynolds soon begin dating. Her best friend and publisher, Sidney, warns Juliet that Mark is a wealthy American trying to establish a publishing empire and looking to poach her. On her tour, Juliet is greeted with flowers from the mysterious Markham V.
Despite the fact that she initially wrote under the name Izzy Bickerstaff during the war, Juliet writes to her publisher that she wants to retire the character and write under her real name. Written under her pen-name Izzy Bickerstaff, the book is a compilation of comedic columns she wrote about life during World War II. In January 1946, 32-year-old Juliet Ashton embarks on a cross-country tour across England to promote her latest book. The book is set in 1946 and is an epistolary novel, composed of letters written from one character to another. It was adapted into a film in 2018 featuring Lily James as Juliet Ashton and Matthew Goode as Sidney Stark. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a historical novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows that was published in 2008.
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