The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

It has been a long time since I read the book, but the movie seems quite different.  Maybe it is that watching an occupation is worse than reading about it, maybe it is that you have to change things for a movie.  One reviewer summed it up in a sentence: Charming but predictable World War II drama.  The Nazi's are cruel and enjoy their power as an invading force on British soil.  Children were evacuated in advance of the invasion, and it is a bit unclear why others did not leave.  Those who were left behind were either resisters or collaborators, and it is very unclear why those who gave up their fellow islanders were not shunned and pushed off the island all together.  Perhaps the complicating factor was that one of them was in fact willingly involved in a romantic relationship with one that should have made the whole thing more complicated but didn't because we only see it in the retelling of the story.  The happily ever after part of the movie seems unnecessary but is not unpleasant, which I guess also pretty much sums up the movie as well.