“Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.” Quoted from The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

"As soon as Mary Ann Shaffer arrived (in Guernsey), the airport was shut down due to heavy fog. She spent her visit in the airport's bookstore, reading several histories of the German occupation of those islands during World War II" Quoted from The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society telling of the seed of inspiration.

The former star of Downton Abbey takes the leading role of lady in The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society. Playing the part of Juliet Ashton, the writer who sets out to tell the story of post war Guernsey making lifelong friends along the way.