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My partner and I watched the Guernsey Literary film on Netflix the other night and were pleasantly surprised at its quality. The production quality and the acting were first class.  It's surprising how the story is still so relevant, all these years after the end of WWII.

The only negative is the fact that Guernsey is not represented geographically, seeing as it was filmed in the south of England. I thought, at least, there would be establishing shots of the harbour, or the cliffs. It was interesting how the film transposed a German observation towel onto a Devon cliff - so at least the construction was authentic.

Here's my drawing of the real location (real in the original book) of the society meetings, the house in St. Martins called La Bouvee: