Juliet Ashton is a young woman who has such a great hobby of writing as she has written some books. One day, she gathers with a group of women from Guernsey, the island which occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War. From their dialogue, she decided to write a book about their experiences during the war time.
Buoyed by a reliably appealing star turn from James, this handsome tearjerker mostly sidesteps the tweeness of its title to become, somehow, both an old-fashioned romance and a detective story trumpeting gender equality.
Yes, some of the narrative twists are a bit creak... but there's enough drama and feel-good factor to leave you feeling, unlike sampling the potentially unctuous pastry of the title, more than satisfied.
They've disentangled the novel's dramatic and romantic complications to a fault; if it's possible to merely amble in place, that's what the storytelling in "Guernsey" does for protracted stretches of screen time.
