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Juliet Ashton is the main character and central protagonist. She is close friends with Sophie and Sidney Stark (the latter of whom is her editor) and the love interest of both Dawsey Adams and Markham V. Reynolds Jr. By the end of the novel, it is also implied that she will be the adoptive mother of Elizabeth McKenna’s daughter Kit. Juliet is a successful writer. During the war, she worked as a fire warden and wrote lighthearted periodicals under the pseudonym Izzy Bickerstaff. After the war, her periodicals were collected into a manuscript and sold very well, allowing her to go on tour through Britain. She chooses to leave her pen name behind to tackle new subjects. Though she had not intended to write about the German Occupation in Guernsey, her correspondence with Dawsey and, eventually, the other members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society capture her interest. She eventually finds herself in Guernsey, trying to piece together their individual stories of the Occupation, especially those of Elizabeth McKenna, who died in a concentration camp. Through the book, she writes about Elizabeth and the Occupation of Guernsey, Juliet works on
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