Guernsey the Movie!

Just 'Guernsey'

 The long awaited movie of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is to be titled simply Guernsey, according to the latest on island reports.

It is now hoped that much of it will be located on the island and Fox has picked Kenneth Branagh to be the director.


 Filming is scheduled for the Spring of 2012 and rumours still abound that Kate Winslet will take the leading role of Juliet Ashton.

This is big news for an island that is frequently confused with it's big sister 'Jersey'.  Most locals have at sometime announced we are from Guernsey, only to get the reply, "Oh yes, we know Jersey!" But this time it will be different and if the movie is the world wide blockbuster Fox hopes for, the tides may just change and our cousins across the water may start to empathise with the plight of 'Guerns'.


"I come from Jersey."

"Oh yes, we all know about Guernsey from the movie and we're going there on holiday, perhaps we'll see you there!"

If you wish to read more about Guernsey during the occupation, read Rachel's Shoe, and the sequel The Causeway. That latter is set in my namesake island of Lihou, off the western coast of Guernsey and continues the story into the 1970s.