The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Three days after Mark’s departure, Juliet writes to Sidney that Eben introduced her to Peter Sawyer, who was arrested with Elizabeth in her attempt to hide a Todt worker. Peter tells her that during the Occupation, nearly every Islander had a vegetable garden, and Todt workers would often forage through them. One night, Peter caught a 16-year-old Polish boy named Lud Jaruzki foraging in his garden. Lud was so weak that he could not get up to crawl away from the hedgerow. Taking pity on the boy, Peter brought him to his home and decided to hide him from the German army. Elizabeth, who worked as Peter’s nursing aid, came the next day. He warned her off, but Elizabeth insisted on helping to nurse the child back to health. Eventually, however, someone noticed her many visits to Peter’s home, and German soldiers took all three of them away. Peter was sent to the federal prison in Coutances. Since they did not know how to handle a prisoner in a wheelchair, however, he was sent home after a week.

Dawsey informs Juliet that he and Remy will soon be back in Guernsey and that he wishes he could channel Juliet’s sunny nature—a comment that Juliet grows to resent because she believes it characterizes her as a “cackling buffoon.