The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

A book club invented on the spot as a cover story during the German occupation of Guernsey becomes the thing that keeps a handful of islanders sane. Lily James plays a London writer who starts a correspondence with one of its members after the war and travels to the island to meet them. It works best as a movie about what reading together does for people under pressure: the society's meetings are where grief, gossip and secrets come out. Handsome, gentle and a touch long, it is ideal for anyone who runs or belongs to a book group.