This is the lovely and moving story of a young woman in the post-World War II London literary and social world of 1946, based on a 2008 book of the same name.
The main character Juliet (played beautifully by Lily James) is a successful author of a series of popular children's books, engaged to be married to a wealthy American. But after reading an intriguing letter she receives from a stranger, she discovers and then falls in love with a small group of eccentric book-loving survivors of the Nazi occupation of Guernsey (in the Channel Islands).
In the process of going to Guernsey, meeting and getting to know the members, and learning the deeper history of their wartime experiences, with all their difficult compromises, sacrifices and bravery, she comes to know herself and her own true desires as well. Highly recommended.
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