If you can remember the convoluted name and convince a friend to join you, you'll likely have a wonderful time watching this British period romp - even if you never get the title correct again.
Lovers of The Crown or Downton Abbey will happily immerse themselves in a handsome and well-delivered film which is part-historical drama, part-romance and a slice of detective story. TGLAPPPS (surely you don't expect me to write it out again ... ) is a film that defines "perfect Sunday afternoon viewing".
It manages to rise above its sentimentality and twee-ness thanks to an eclectic and likeable bunch of characters, and just the right dose of history and backstory.
It's a story about the power of books to sustain people through the worst of times; in this case the 1941 occupation of the Channel Island of Guernsey during World War II. A group of inebriated locals is stopped one night by the Germans and claim they're allowed out after curfew as they're a cultural group - a book club. Needless to say, it was their first meeting.
After the war one of the society members writes to a free-spirited London writer Juliet Ashton (Lily James). Intrigued, and in search of a new idea for a book, she decides to visit Guernsey.
