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The remote island you're going to want to visit after watching 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'

She had traveled to Guernsey on a whim, and now she was stuck there.

Mary Ann Shaffer had known nothing about the Channel Island before she visited in 1980 - just that the enclave off the northwest coast of France looked like a relaxing place to spend a weekend. Now a thick fog had settled over the island, shutting down the airport. Stranded in the terminal, Shaffer bought a stack of books from the gift shop and camped out under the hand dryer in the men's restroom to keep warm.

She cracked open one of the books about the history of Guernsey to pass the time. She learned that during World War II, as France fell to

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