Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Kenneth Branagh's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, based on the novel of the same name,..set in 1946 -Winslet will play a magazine reporter who, through a series of coincidences, winds up corresponding with the quirky and charming residents of Guernsey, an island off the coast of Normandy that was occupied by Germany during WWII. Romance and accents, ahoy!
