A very enjoyable read. I loved the character of Morag with all her trial and tribulations. It was a real page turner for me trying to guess which love interest she will pick.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Morag is a successful pilot for a large airline when a traumatic accident in the air causes her to lose confidence in her flying ability. She then has to travel home to Scotland as her grandfather is ill and she is needed to co-pilot the small island hopper plane that is her family business.
During a routine flight, she unexpectedly has to take the controls and then the plane is caught up in a huge storm. As a result, she has to crash land on a remote island where the only inhabitant is the resident ornithologist, Gregor.
This story is told throughout in the first person by Morag and we quickly get to know her. I loved her sparky personality and the way that she never let problems get in her way but continually looked for a solution. Her story of how she came to terms with what had happened and worked out what it was that she really wanted from life was completely engrossing.
I loved all of the different characters in the novel, even the animals have starring roles. However, the real star for me was the Island of Inchborn. With its beaches, bird population and ruined abbey, it sounds like a perfect piece of heaven. I was also hooked by the descriptions of how Morag felt as she was flying and the sheer joy that it gave her.
This is another brilliant novel by Jenny Colgan and I would definitely recommend it.
Huge thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, Little Brown Book Group UK, for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I’m a big fan of Jenny Colgan’s writing and I was very excited to read this new one. I am still getting withdrawal symptoms from her Mure series but I’m just about coping as The Summer Skies is set on another Scottish island, even tinier and more remote than Mure.

At the beginning of this book, pilot Morag is waiting to find out if she’ll be passed fit to fly again after a traumatic incident affected her confidence. Flying is in her blood, with her great grandfather having founded a small airline company connecting an archipelago of remote Scottish islands. She had grander ambitions and wanted to fly bigger planes and further afield. When she goes back to help out when her grandfather is unwell, she finds herself not only unexpectedly forced to take over flying the small plane in a storm but also to crash land the plane on a beach.

Morag has to get used to a very different kind of pace of life when she is stranded on the island. Luckily she’s not alone as Gregor, an ornithologist, is there. Although I’m not sure that Morag thought it was very lucky since Gregor seemed to be the grumpiest man going! It was such fun reading about how they had to get used to each other’s ways. With her pilot’s training, Morag is used to planning everything to the minutest detail, to plan ahead for every eventuality. By contrast, Gregor doesn’t seem to worry about anything. He recognises that they have all they need and that people will come to their aid soon. They are warm, dry, have food and shelter and the beauty of the island around them. Finding out what is really important is a key theme for Morag throughout the book.

The contrast of life on the island versus life in the air is beautifully explored. When she is flying, Morag has endless skies and possibilities of places to go and now she has to adapt to being on this tiniest of islands. She really has to learn to trust Gregor and not just rely on herself, something I felt went against her instincts. The descriptions of how Morag felt when she was flying both the larger planes and the small ones were so vivid. I’m not massively keen on flying but felt this was really reassuring about the expertise and dedication of pilots no matter what planes they are flying. The descriptions of the island’s natural surroundings were so good too. I love books set on islands almost as much as I enjoy visiting them and this little group of islands sounded so beautiful.

As ever in a Jenny Colgan novel, there is a lot of humour in this book. She just has this way of making the most ordinary of conversations sparkle and making me smile. Some of the animals in this book added some extra entertainment most notably Barbara the chicken and Frances the goat!

I’m not sure if The Summer Skies is the start of a planned series or is simply a standalone novel but I’d certainly be interested in reading more about Morag and her family, or perhaps the residents of other islands on the archipelago. Another very enjoyable read from Jenny Colgan.

Once again Jenny provides beautiful escapism in the form of Scottish Isles and I absolutely love it!

I also felt I learnt a lot about this new world too!

I’ve loved reading stories about flying since I read Biggles as a child, and I love Jenny Colgan books. So I was thrilled to get my hands on an early copy of The Summer Skies.

I really enjoyed this book. I liked Morag straight away, and of course I loved the descriptions of flying. I liked the way we were inside Morag’s head, feeling her worries. It made the story very immediate.

Gregor was a more remote character (not surprisingly, as we’re not inside his head), but I too love ornithology, and falconry, and taking things slowly. Once we started getting to know him, I liked him a lot more. I found his interactions with Morag in the second half of the book were often very entertaining.

I loved the setting too, the beautiful islands of Scotland come across well, you can almost smell the freshness of the air, and feel the rain. There was romance too, but it didn’t seem, to me, the main point of the story.

Oh and the ending, the final flight of the book, that was just perfect. This will definitely be a reread for me!

I was given a copy of this book, my opinions are my own.

This must be one of the worst Jenny Colgan books. I felt it was going nowhere and the descriptions were tedious. I was so disappointed that I could not finish it. Sorry but can’t recommend this one at all.

Jenny Colgan has another absolute winner with Summer Skies it sound like she had great fun with the research into flying. Morag MacIntyre is a very likeable character I hope we will see more of her in further books. Flying aircraft is in Morag’s blood going back to her great grandfather . Morag flies for big airlines all over the world unlike her grandfather who provides a service to the small islands of Scotland. When she is called back to Scotland on the surface she is fine but maybe her family know what she needs and with the help of them maybe the real Morag can emerge. From stubborn people to independent chickens the characters are great a really enjoyable, funny, heartwarming read

After an accident leaves pilot Morag unable to fly through fear, she returns home to a tiny island in Scotland. Unfortunately for her, she has returned home due to her grandfather's illness and is expected to help with the family business - flying a small 16 seater plane between islands. When events leave Morag with no choice but to fly the plane, and see her stranded with recluse Gregor on the island of Inchborn, will she be able to accept the changes in her life, and will she be able to help her family?

A pleasant enough read, although I did find the descriptive flying sections far too long and wordy, with a lot of repetition. I loved the animals in the book, Barbara and Frances were brilliant, and I enjoyed watching Gregor and Morag bring out the best in each other.

Jenny Colgan was where my enjoyment of reading for pleasure began with books like Amanda’s wedding. It has been at least 5 years since I last picked up a book by Colgan so I was super excited to read Summer Skies.

Summer Skies a great summer read. The stories follows Morag, a pilot who was involved in a serious accident and piecing her life personally and professionally back together.

It was an enjoyable read. I won’t be waiting as long to read my next Colgan book. I just wish Morag had really given Hayden a piece of her mind

To read a Jenny Colgan book is to meet new people you could easily imagine having as friends.
Morag is one of these characters. She grew up in an island in an archipelago at the northern most tip of Scotland and all she has every wanted to do is fly. It is in her blood as the family had a sixteen seater plane (Dolly) which takes passengers from one island to the next. And not just people. Sometimes prize winning rams get flown too.
But Morag is a commercial pilot flying huge airbuses; or she was until a tragedy happened. Now although she has been cleared to fly Morag is just a little bit doubtful.
Hopefully the wonderful Hayden will help to overcome her nerves. He is everything she wants in a boyfriend; good-looking, organised and caring. They are both destined for jobs in sunnier climes until Morag gets the call that her beloved Gramps is ill and she is needed, just for a short while, to help fly Dolly. And of course she goes.

The Summer Skies is a really enjoyable, page turning adventure. Morag is the pilot with an issue. She’s doubting her ability to fly after years in the sky. Morag ends up going back to the remote Scottish islands where she grew up and the community rely on the small local plane service. It’s due to this she meets Gregor, resident of the tiny island. He seems grumpy and unfriendly but as their paths clash their lives get drawn together. This story had a lovely sense of fun and humour. The island setting was idyllic, making me want to visit Scotland. It was good and actually over too quickly!

Morag is a third generation pilot from the northern most tip of Scotland who grew up flying little 16 seater puddle jumpers over the Scottish archipelago but she moved to London to fly for a commercial airline and never looked back. That is, until something traumatic happens to her.

Knowing her confidence has been knocked, who grandfather fakes an illness to get her back home and taking over the route out over the archipelago. Unfortunately for Morag, she is still struggling with her confidence and instead chooses to be co-pilot, forcing the usual co-pilot, Erno, into a pilot role.

During another traumatic event while flying, Morag is forced to face her fears head on when she has to land the small plane on a beach with a category 3 storm closing in on them. The other two people on board are evacuated out by helicopter but Morag stays with the plane until they can the parts they need to fix it.

To wait out the storm she heads for the old Abbots House on the island and frightens the living daylights out of the seasonal keeper who is currently living there, Gregor. He takes in her and looks after her but they both seem to rub each other up the wrong way - until a few hours later, they realise they may have more in common than they each realised.

This is the first story I've read from Jenny Colgan and I enjoyed it a lot. It is well written and the story is well balanced with romance, suspense and personal growth. It didn't matter that I could see what was happening before it happened, it was nice to know at the end that everything worked out as it should.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. The book will be published on June 8th, 2023

A really fascinating story of strong characters coping with difficult situations and still surviving. You really get a good feel of the islands and their beautiful wildlife. A great warming read that makes you smile.

I love all Jenny Colgan books and this one was just as good as the rest that I have read. Not only is there a gorgeous setting but also a strong female character who just so happens to be a pilot!
Give it a go you won't be disappointed!

One of the best books I have read so far this year.
Jenny Colgan has long been one of my favourite authors so I was thrilled to find a new book by her, and one that sounded so intriguing. I had high expectations and I was not disappointed. A great storyline that held my interest from beginning to end, it is filled with believable, fully-formed characters and I warmed to Morag immediately, along with her childhood friend, Nalitha (I kind of wish Nalitha wasn’t married, so we could return north for a second book, but live in hope that perhaps the second pilot, Indirah might need her story telling).
I love the fact that Mure gets a name check towards the end, a small nod to another of Jenny’s wonderful Scottish islands.
Another absolutely fantastic book from Jenny Colgan. A perfect summer read.

I love the style of writing that Jenny Colgan's books have, they flow beautifully, gracefully and before you know it, you have finished the book and you are sad because you now have to wait awhile for the next book!
So I started this one and whoosh, I had read it.
New characters to enjoy but we are again on the Isles of Scotland with the breathtaking scenery wonderfully described. Morag reluctantly comes home from London to help with the family business and we ware taken on a wonderful jaunt....... I am hoping this will be the first of many journeys with Morag and Gregor, not forgetting Barbara and Francis.

I used to read Jenny Colgan books semi-regularly quite a few years ago, but haven't picked one up in a long time due to the sheer volume of her releases and the various series that I just couldn't keep straight. So it was nice to pick up one of her stand-alone novels and start somewhat afresh.

The Summer Skies is a sweet book, telling the story of Morag. She's a pilot who has experienced an incident in the air and is subsequently struggling to find her way back to the profession that she loves. It was nice to read about a female in a male-dominated industry and I appreciate the depth that Colgan went into to explain the broad ins and outs of Morag's job.

The book felt a bit like it was in two halves though. The first focused more on Morag finding her way back to flying, while the second half around the events after the storm. As a result, it felt a little bit disjointed, like two ideas forced together into one narrative - I rather forgot about Morag's first half problems by the second half and it seemed the book did as well. The first half definitely required a bit of persistence as the plot was a bit slow to get off the ground. Morag also wasn't particularly likeable, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing - it was nice to see a female character having some flaws and character traits that are realistic, although she was quite one note for good portions of the book.

Overall though, it was an easy read. Colgan's writing is always pleasant and gentle and this was no different. It ends in the place you expect it to, but I couldn't always predict the immediate next plot points which was nice. It'll certainly appeal to those who like her books already as it doesn't really depart from Colgan's established formula. For me, it was a little slow, but completely fine.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I really enjoyed this love story but I felt like it was over too quickly as I was just really getting into the characters' personalities and stories. I hope this is the start of a series.

Jenny Colgan does it again.
Moray is at a turning g point not only in her life but in her career. She was in plane when a small aircraft crept up and ended up crashing fatally. She can’t get the image of the little plane spiralling out of control out of her mind. She has to do a series of tests to complete to fly again. Meanwhile back at home in the Scottish islands her gramps takes ill.
she rushes back to help gets caught in a storm and is forced to emergency land on an island inhabited by one man.
Great storyline hoping to visit Morag again in the future.

Absolutely a brilliant book. Jenny never let's us down. I did find it a bit hard to get into but I think it was just my frame if mind. Once I got passed the first few chapters I could not put it down.