Jessica Redland returns with a magical new novel that is pure enchantment from beginning to end: Summer Nights at The Starfish Café.

Hollie is counting down the days until her summer wedding to the man of her dreams and the love of her life, Jake. The stage is set for an unforgettable wedding, but it looks like all of Hollie’s hopes and dreams for the future might be in jeopardy when unexpected news threatens to put in doubt their plans for a new beginning as a family. Can Hollie find the strength and courage to rise above the many challenges being thrown her way? Will her heart’s desires ever come true? Or should she resign herself to more heartache and disappointment?

Single mum Kerry loves her job working at The Starfish Café. This job has been absolute lifeline for her and she loves laughing and joking with the customers, however, her smiles hide an inner sadness that often threatens to consume her. When a face from her past appears, Kerry realizes that she has two choices: she can either return back to the shadows and hide or she can face her demons head on and finally forge forward with her life.

This summer promises to be quite an eventful one for Hollie and Kerry. But with courage, friendship, love and the help and support of the community at The Starfish Café anything is possible – and their most cherished dreams might just end up coming true after all…

Jessica Redland’s books never fail to hit the spot and she has written another winner with Summer Nights at The Starfish Café. An enjoyable, entertaining and gorgeous romantic read about the power of friendship, fighting for your happy ending and falling in love that made me smile and had me wiping away a tear or two, Summer Nights at The Starfish Café is a heart-warming, uplifting and feel-good tale I absolutely adored.

A lovely read from one of my favourite writers, Summer Nights at The Starfish Café needs to be on everyone’s must-buy list this summer.

The third and final book in The Starfish Café series and what a book to finish with!

It was lovely reconnecting with Holly, Jake and Pickle and I was hoping for a smooth time for them. Unfortunately more heartache befalls them, although it's not all sadness as there are some wonderful, heartwarming moments.

I really enjoyed getting to know Kerry and her children, what a great storyline. What a piece of work Cameron, her ex husband, is.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and couldn't put it down. So many lovely (and not so lovely) characters, old and new. On a side note, there is a serious topic addressed and I know it was written from the author's experience. This is something I've also experienced and could totally relate to, so thank you.

A wonderful heartwarming and emotional read. I would highly recommend this series if you haven't read it already.

Not read any books by this author before but I was hooked very quickly. Couldn’t put the book down and read it over a couple evenings. Loved getting to know all the characters.
Kerry is a single mum with 4 children who works in the cafe during term time. When her ex husband turns up wanting to see their kids after 7 years it changes all their lives.
Hollie who owns the cafe is about to marry Jake but once again they face heartache.
This summer both the lives of Kerry and Hollie is an emotional rollercoaster but the town community is there for them both.
I will now have to read all Jessica Redland books.

I have loved this series sad this the last one but it’s absolutely brilliant. This author is amazing at character development & getting you so invested in them. Love Jessica Redland I recommend her books to everyone.

I am new to The Starfish Series so I had no idea what to expect. This was such a beautiful book I was obsessed. This book was so emotional, heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure laughing and one chapter and crying at the next. It handled many difficult topics sensitively. I am kind of glad I have the two previous books to go back and read because I love the characters and their storyline arcs converge perfectly to form a beautiful story of friendship and love. Just gorgeous 5 stars.

I can't believe this is the last in the Starfish Cafe series but what an ending. I loved it there was a mixture of joy, heartbreak, love and loss for different characters in the book but done so well I could have imagined they were actually my friends or family.
A definite must read

This story has love and loss, family estrangements and reconciliation, as well as a wedding, but it also deals with abandonment, mental health, guilt, forgiveness and adventure. A beautiful unforgettable series.

I have hugely enjoyed the Starfish Cafe series, im actually a little sad for it to end.
Hollie is approaching her wedding to Jake but suddenly there is unexpected news and impending heartache. As we've come to expect, there is never a quiet moment at the Starfish Cafe, there is always some happenings and comings and goings.
I'm reluctant to give away any spoilers from the series but i honestly cant reccomend this series enough.

After reading the first two books in this series and thoroughly enjoying them, I was looking forward to reading the next instalment. I can honestly say that I absolutely loved this book, and that in my opinion its the best one. This book has it all - sad parts, happy parts and touching parts. Unfortunately it's the last in the series, but its definitely a series to recommend.
I shall now have to purchase and read all of the Whitsborough books.
Thanks to netgalley and the publishers for this advance read.

The perfect setting at the cliff top Starfish Cafe, doing brisk business as summer approaches – and you really must go down to the beach below, where Jake first found Pickle and they both became part of Hollie’s life, because the seals are proudly showing off their new babies. And it’s business as usual down at the lifeboat station – the regular call-outs (sometimes involving Jake and Hollie) needing to be supported by the tours and regular fundraising events. Have you visited before? You could just make this your first visit – there’s plenty of catching up on the back story – but I honestly think you’d enjoy this book even more than you will if you catch up first on the first two books. And that’s because it really helps to understand what this lovely couple have already been through – this book really is a considerable emotional rollercoaster as far as they’re concerned, beginning with the long-awaited wedding day (which is just glorious…), but then… and that’s as far as I plan to go in telling that story!

But, as always, another character also moves to centre stage – Kerry, who works part-time and term-time at the cafe, single parent to four lovely children who are the centre of her life. And we follow her story – finding out about her past, where things went wrong, and the reasons why she finds herself coping alone. She makes a friend among the crew at the lifeboat station – it might become something more (oh, I really wanted it to!) but first she needs to handle a really difficult situation, protecting her children from damage when her past unexpectedly resurfaces.

I’m very deliberately not telling any more of the story – I’d hate to ruin it for anyone – but there are a number of difficult issues and a lot of emotional content in this book, beautifully and sensitively handled as always, and both the storylines really deeply touched my heart. There’s plenty of well-written drama too, but also a lot of lightness and humour through the relationships between the many wonderfully drawn characters (many of them very familiar if you’ve read the author’s other books – including a few friends from Castle Street, and it was so lovely to see them again). But I really love the way the author takes her characters through some really difficult times, always focusing on the love that surrounds them and their sheer determination to survive. The warmth of this book is palpable – her books always feel like a hug in book form, and this one is certainly no exception, and it’s all just so beautifully done.

I’m really sorry to be leaving Jake and Hollie and all the other characters who’ve become friends and who I’ve really grown to care for behind – but, after this book’s quite perfect ending, I know they’ll be happy living their lives. And who knows, we might well see them again as part of a future story – I do hope so! This really was the loveliest read – and one I’d highly recommend to others.

SUMMER NIGHTS AT THE STARFISH CAFE - JESSICA REDLAND.

Having loved the first two books in this series, I couldn’t wait to head back to Whitsborough Bay and catch up with all the goings on in the Starfish Cafe.

I’ve loved following Hollie and Jake’s journey.
Their love and loyalty to each other will warm the coldest of hearts.
I felt their sadness and their joy in this story. Their journey through Summer Nights At The Starfish Cafe is a rollercoaster ride of some ecstatic highs and some heartbreaking lows.

As always, Jessica Redland doesn’t hold back with what she throws at her characters.
Just as they would be in the real world, they are put through their fair share of troubles, but they are always balanced out with happier times.

Running alongside Hollie and Jake’s story, we also follow Kerry who works at the Starfish Cafe. She’s a single mum who is doing her best to keep a lot of plates spinning.
Although I can only dream that my children were ever as well behaved as all four of Kerry’s, she does have her hands full. Then the children’s father reappears and her life gets even more complicated. I liked how Kerry approached the situation with common sense and how she puts her children first, despite her own feelings.
I had everything crossed that Kerry would find the ending that she deserved.

It was also good to catch up with faces from previous books and to learn how these characters were getting along.
The reappearance of Jake’s horrid and seemingly rather troubled sister was an interesting thread. I’m so glad JR included this. I think Jake deserved some answers.

As in the previous two books in the series, the RNLI is at the very heart of this book. Once more, we learn through fiction just how important the work of the RNLI is in the real world and how utterly selfless it’s staff and volunteers are.

It’s fair to say that Jessica Redland writes from the heart and keeps it real.
She creates characters that you fall in love with, characters who you would choose to be friends with and some who are instantly dislikeable.
She creates settings that have a strong sense of community. They draw you in so as you feel that you are a part of its very soul.

Summer Nights At The Starfish Cafe is a fitting end to a gorgeous series.
The story bounces along and I must admit that I read it very quickly. I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next, but equally I wasn’t ready to say goodbye.

The story is touching on so many levels. You can’t help but feel for the characters through their highs and lows.
The book celebrates friendships and particularly the bonds shared by women. I’m a sucker for a book that champions female friendships, and JR does this superbly.
There is of course some heart warming, sweet and squishy romance, that will turn your insides to jelly.

When I finished Summer Nights At The Starfish Cafe, I had that feeling you get when you come home from a really good holiday. I felt like I’d been somewhere glorious and met some fantastic people, but now I felt a little melancholy to be home and that the adventure was over.

I had a lump in my throat to leave the Starfish Cafe and it’s many staff and visitors. However, I’m glad I made the journey through this series of books, because they are a thoroughly good read.

I do hope we are saying, ‘goodbye for now’ rather than ‘goodbye forever’ to the Starfish Cafe.
I suspect Jessica Redland will squeeze the odd mention into future books set in Whitsborough Bay and I hope that we may, one day, get book four from the Starfish Cafe.

Summer Nights At The Starfish Cafe gets five shiny stars from me. A delight of a book to conclude a smashing series.
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With thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources, Netgalley and Boldwood Books for a digital arc of this title.

Thank you @rararesources and @JessicaRedland for letting me part if this tour and reviewing this book. Summer nights at Starfish cafe is beautifly written and is a heart warming story . This is the third book in the series. The story is about Holly and Jake who have just got married and Jake sister suddenly turns up out of the blue which is not good thing. The story is also about Kerry who exhusband turns up after seven years wanted to see his children. Which sends Kerry life upside down but a new man enters her life which makes things better at the end. I enjoyed the characters alot and enjoyed following there stories. I feel i connected more with Holly due to her losing her baby and how she was feeling emotional. It made me cry and it was heartbreaking and i am do glad they got happy ending.

Summer Nights at the Starfish Café is the third and final book in the Starfish Café Series and what a way to go. This whole series has been brilliant – drama, emotion, ups and downs; a host of great characters (and not so great of course) but at the root of it is love, determination, over coming adversity and being surrounded by the best people. This third book sums this all up nicely, with old faces making a not so welcome return, heartbreak and strength playing a massive part in every characters story in some way.
Emotional rollercoaster doesn’t really do this one justice; prepare yourselves and get hankies ready. Hollie and Jake have been through so much, individually and together, happy endings, wedded bliss and a rosy future for book three? Well…. Not quite, not right away at least. I won’t say more but these guys are made of tough stuff.
Kerry and her brood are in for some surprises, a blast of the past returns to seek something they believe they should have and this reveals a whole history that causes pain and anguish. I think Kerry is amazing in this situation though, classy and putting those she loves most first every time. A dramatic rollercoaster tinged with healing hearts, new starts and interesting developments.
I didn’t think I would be so ok with this series ending but feel this book really did them all justice, I liked the cameos from Castle Street friends and love that there is always that nod to previous stories in other series. I will miss them all and wish I could go visit though – for goodies and seals if nothing else.
Great writing as always by Jessica Redland, a go to author for great settings and loveable characters.
Looking forward to what is coming next!

As regular readers of my blog will know, I’m a big fan of Jessica Redland’s books and I’m always excited to read her new novels. Summer Nights at the Starfish Café is Book 3 in the Starfish Café Series.

In the second book, we followed Hollie and Tori. This third book continues to tell Hollie’s story, but also Kerry’s, who is a thirty-one-year-old single mum of four little ones (Maisie aged eleven, Noah aged eight and Freya and Jayden – the six year old twins) and works at The Starfish Café. The café is on a clifftop not far from Whitsborough Bay, the seaside town in North Yorkshire. They also have a seal colony at Starfish Point, which I love reading about.

The book begins four days before Hollie and Jake’s wedding at the Bay Pavilion. Hollie is 36 and as well as her work in the café, she volunteers for the RNLI and makes crafts for the Driftwood Dell shop and gallery. The wedding is beautifully described and I loved how everything was colour-coordinated and fitted the sea theme. The second wedding seemed even more beautiful, but I won’t go into details here. No spoilers!

We learn about Kerry’s past through flashbacks, how she was married to Cameron (the father of her children) and how they split up. But when she suddenly hears from him after seven years, what will happen? How will it affect the children?

I don’t want to go into the plot too much, as you really need to read it for yourself and find out what happens – and I’d recommend reading the first two books in The Starfish Café series first, to get the whole experience of learning to know and love the characters. But I’ve got to say - Artie – woo hoo! What a gorgeous man, loved his character!

Jessica Redland is brilliant at writing books which feel real. The settings, the characters and the communities of each of her novels are so completely believable, you can expect to feel genuine emotion following the storylines through the books – and there are serious issues covered too. It feels like catching up with friends you care about, you worry about their plights and hope for them to find the happy endings they deserve. With this being the third and final Starfish Café book, we can expect our main characters to find their happy ever afters, but they will have to go through the mill to get there!

The book is around 400 pages long, but I read it in three days, which is quick for me. It becomes a real page-turner and you have to keep reading to find out what happens, which resulted in a couple of later nights than I’d planned! I loved this series and Book 3 concluded it all perfectly. Another gorgeous read from Jessica Redland!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sunset Nights at the Starfish Cafe is sadly the last book in this series and what a way to end it! We delve into Hollie and Jake's life, meeting his sister Larissa who has a massive chip on her shoulder as well as joining them at their wedding! Several times throughout, I thought to myself "I need to give Hollie a call and ask if she really is ok?" - I was so immersed in the story that I felt I was there and a family friend! I can't wait to read what Jessica Redland writes next!

I love Jessica Redland! All of her books have wonderful, realistic characters with well developed stories. I really appreciate the addition of relevant topics and the varied ways that characters deal with challenges, changes and life in general. Reading Redland's books are always like spending time with family and friends. Thanks #NetGalley #BoldwoodBooks

As always Jessica Redland’s book provided a nice escape from life. I loved that Hollie and Jake finally got married and I hope they have a cameo in future books because I would love to watch their family grow. The story touched on some sensitive subjects, but was well written emphasizing the importance of family, love, friendship, and believing in oneself. If you haven’t read the books in this series (and the other series by Redland) I recommend they move to the top of your TBR pile!

I would firstly just like to say a big thank you to Rachel’s Random Resources who very kindly forwarded me an arc copy of this book, for my kindle, in return for my honest review.

This book is actually book number three from The Starfish Café series and although it could be read as a stand alone, it is much better to read them all in order as it follows the wonderful story of Hollie and Jake and lots of other characters too.

Summer Nights At The Starfish Café truly is an emotional roller coaster, so full of emotions and it really is wonderful.

There is such a feeling of community spirit in this story and everyone comes together to share their help.

I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be reading many more from this author…….

I love the Starfish Cafe series so i was very excited to read the last instalment. It did not disappoint, it was fun, heart warming and emotional. Hard topics were discussed in a very sensitive manner and I felt Holie and Jakes story was told very well.
The whole story was fabulous and I enjoyed the way it was brought to a close. Hopefully we will see these characters popping up in further whitsborough Bay books!

So great to return to Whitsborough Bay once more
To catch up on the characters and places to explore.
This time the story is told from the points of view
Of Hollie and Kerry, sharing what they're going through.

Wedding preparations, excitement and a returned threat that mount
Are faced by Hollie as the days to to her wedding she continues to count.
For single Mum, Kerry, it is the return of someone
Since disappearing from her life seven years have gone....

I like how readers are taken straight back to this special resort,
Where friendships are there along with plenty of support.
A community where others always have your back
And will help to provide anything you may lack.

The characters now feel like friends I know well,
Though some have secrets they've been reluctant to tell.
There's love and romance added to the delightful mix
And families in need of healing to fix.

The Starfish Café is the central place
Where both ladies are supported despite what they face.
The story is full of love, surprises and the sea,
A heartwarming read that always appeals to me.

For my complementary copy, I say a huge thank you,
As I share with you this, my honest review.