The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Part 2: 9 Aug, 1946 Summary & Analysis

Juliet congratulates Sophie on her new pregnancy. She tells Sophie that Isola is sending a bottle of "Pre-Birthing Tonic," and Sophie shouldn't drink it. Juliet says that she can't answer any questions about Dawsey, as she never sees him anymore. After Mark showed up, Juliet and Dawsey stopped talking and it seems as though they're barely friends anymore.

Juliet says she asked Isola about Dawsey since he won't talk. Isola is becoming disillusioned with phrenology; she commented that Dawsey should have a larger "violence node" given that he beat a man named Eddie Meares. Juliet learned that Eddie Meares ratted out his neighbors to the Germans in exchange for favors, and he's the one who reported Peter and Elizabeth. After he disclosed what he'd done, Dawsey beat him in the pub. Dawsey spent a month in jail for it. Isola then shared the rest of Dawsey's history: his father died when he was a child and his mother became progressively madder and eventually refused to leave the house. She died right before the war.