JOSIE SILVER – ONE NIGHT ON THE ISLAND *****

I read this novel in advance of publication through NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Cleo is a writer for an online lifestyle magazine and approaching thirty. Mack is an America photographer with major family problems back home. By chance both have rented the same holiday cottage on a tiny, remote island called Salvation, just off the Irish coast.

Unfortunately (or, without giving too much of the game away, fortunately) there is no other accommodation on the island and the tiny weekly ferry is beset with bad weather which means often it can’t run. As neither can go anywhere, the solution to their hostilities is to draw a chalk line across the floor of the cottage, over which neither of them must step.

One doesn’t need to be a clairvoyant to predict that they do step over the line. It’s not the destination that counts in this book, it’s the journey. Josie Silver populates the tiny island with interesting and warm (mainly female) characters, which for me, was the charm of the book and brought it richly to life.

This is a skilfully written romance that crosses all the I’s and dots all the T’s in character and plotting. It is designed to please, and it does just that.

I loved my first read from this author and automatically get her next book without reading the blurb. Unfortunately her books since then haven been to par for me personally. I will still keep getting her books but hopefully the next one will be for me

Another great novel from Josie Silver. When Chloe sets off to the remote Salvation Island hoping to find herself she finds more than she imagined - friendship, self-acceptance and romance.

One Night on the Island is my new favourite Josie Silver novel. It’s a cosy romantic story with plenty of drama and angst thrown in too.

Cleo is approaching 30 and after a decade of bad dating decisions, she heads to the Island of Salvation for a work assignment for the paper she writes a dating column for. Cleo plans to marry herself on the day she turns 30 but what she doesn’t account for is the trials and tribulations leading up to the day.

Throughout the book you find yourself rooting for Cleo and the complicated but lovable Mack. The islanders are a great mix of characters which contribute well to the story.

It’s a gently cosy story but one that is 5 stars.

One Night on the Island by Josie Silver


Cleo a 30 year old , lonely hearts journalist ( The Flamingos !) It is a wonderful, amusing story which I devoured in no time at all.
She is sent by her boss to go and stay at Salvation Island , and to marry herself (!)
Trouble is where she is supposed to stay has been double booked and she is thrown together with a photographer by the name of Mack , and neither of them is particularly pleased about it , but they are forced to both stay there.
It's a highly amusing tale of how love can blossom in the most unusual of places and circumstances.
An all round great read.

Reading this book is like eating an indulgent and addictive dessert! This is my third Josie Silver book and definitely her best. She has romantic fiction down to a T. You’ll adore her characters, root for and relate to the protagonists and most of all you will just love reading it. It is utter escapism and so enjoyable. If you have anything planned while you are reading this you might want to cancel because you won’t want to put this down! 5 stars

Very good. Another powerful story from this wonderful author. Even though this is a love story between two people it is also a love story towards yourself. It shows that sometimes you just need to deal with your own love connection with yourself before anything else. Love how the author uses the island as a character in itself.

A lovely story. I loved the island and the struggle with mobile connection was funny. I loved the pub and the whole idea of marrying yourself. The ceremony was lovely and the knitting group was a good laugh. Glad Cleo could knit with a little help. Not always a fan when books move between two characters but it worked. The idea of having for a boat to go was fun . The lodge sounded amazing , the chalk line made you laugh. Poor Mack with his sons and the secret upsetting one. A brilliant read with a good ending.

Whilst a little slow to get going, this was a really lovely read. Well written, great characters and, once it got going, really pacey and strong.

Cleo and Mack are both on Salvation Island for their own reasons, but are forced to share a small cottage due to a mix up with bookings.
Enemies at first, they begin to tolerate each other and then become much more than friends. What will happen when it is time to return to their real lives, which are oceans apart?

I liked how it is told from both their points of view, but was a bit disappointed with the ending of the book - but maybe there will be an epilogue?

This was wonderful. I’ve unintentionally picked up three ‘woman moves to an island’ books recently just because they’ve been the newest book by authors I’ve enjoyed reading before. I have to say I think this one is the best. I feel like Cleo had the most to gain and grew the most.

I have loved both of Josie’s previous books and I am so thrilled to say she’s done it again. This one really is something special. It’s a love story between a man and woman. It’s love story between a man and his family roots. It’s a love story between a woman and herself. It’s a love story between an island and it’s inhabitants. This book is so many things all at once. It sounds like it could be complicated or confusing being all those things but it really isn’t. This book ebs and flows like the sea against the rocks of Slánú.

This is the first novel I’ve finished since we lost our darling doggo but even without the timing I know this is a book I will think of often because of the beautiful people I met within its pages.

I absolutely loved this story. It took me a few chapters to get totally engrossed but once I did I was hooked and found it really hard to put down. This story tugged at my heartstrings and made me laugh, smile and cry quite a bit too; all the emotions you want from a great romance. I have never wanted to be a character more than I did with Cleo, or to get the chance to visit an island and reinvent myself. This book took me on a journey along with the characters and kept me entranced.

I loved Cleo, I loved her optimism and how brave she was too. Cleo has been looking for her flamingo and has just about given up, so decides to marry herself on a remote island of Salvation. However, there's been a mix-up and Mack, a rather grumpy photographer is booked into the same lodge and there is no way off the island. I absolutely loved them both, the emotions they feel are so well written they are palpable and I felt them too.

The rest of the characters are fantastic too, I especially loved the island women, they have such great personalities. I admired they rally around to help each other and Cleo too. They are truly heartwarming and they made me laugh a lot. I would have loved to be part of their group.

This story is a definite must-read romance. You will need to make time for this one, shut the doors and curl up with a warm drink and woolly blanket and a box of tissues though. I loved it, truly loved it.

One Night on the Island follows Cleo and Mack, told in first person dual POV’s. Cleo is British and works for a magazine where she goes on dates to find the one. This has not been working out for her so she goes to Salvation Island in Ireland to self couple and discover herself before she turns thirty. Mack is American and has travelled from Boston to Salvation Island to look at where his ancestors lived and to take some photographs for his photography. Mack is going through relationship issues with his wife and is stuck in a sort of limbo. There is a mix up and Cleo and Mack end up at the same cottage and have to live together. A romance does develop. Now, my main problem with this book is that it took a while for me to get into it and I didn’t feel the romantic connection between Cleo and Mack as it happened very fast. I adored Josie Silver’s novel One Day in December so this was a disappointment to me. To be completely honest, I probably won’t read another Josie Silver book again as I just haven’t connection with her last book or this one. The writing is good though and easy to read, this book just didn’t work for me. I didn’t really want to pick it up when I’d started and I didn’t have an urge to keep on reading.

Josie Silver never fails to disappoint. I was invited to read this which was a lovely surprise as I loved Josie’s first two books.
This one took a while to get into (wasn’t a big fan of Cleo to begin with) but once I did I fell in love with it.
The island sounds amazing and I wish I could find a man like Mack! (Not sure they exist in real life)
I laughed and cried and didn’t want it to end. Just lovely. Thank you for the preview 😊

Cleo is about to turn thirty and with no suitable man on the horizon, she decides to marry herself. All about loving yourself and finding value in your community. The only spanner in the works is Mack - the unwanted house guest. A lovely read. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me review this book.

I thought this book was absolutely fabulous! I loved everyone in it! Thanks for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Absolutely loved this book!!! Not a traditional love story, Josie Silver has gone above and beyond ot bring a book that offers so much more! Chloe and Mack are brilliant characters and I was genuinely on the edge of my seat waiting to see how it would end...

One night on the Island by Josie Silver a five-star read that will warm even the coldest of hearts. I have never wanted to run away to a cold and damp island so much in my life. Cleo was such a great character, she made you warm to her so much, you empathise with her and feel her words and doubts. Then when you add Mack to the equation, a man who is lost and in need of the Salvation the community of Slanu can offer, warmth blossoms in the coldest of places. What starts as a simple offer of helping each other becomes so much more, as you read the words you become part of, the stories, you get wrapped into the blanket that is woven by all of the characters if this story, becoming a square of your own that belongs on the island. This a sublime story and it shows us what a wonderful storyteller this author is.

When I got the request to read this book I stocked up on tissues because I knew I would need them (I cried through both the previous books) Josie Silver writes unashamedly romantic books that pull at your heart strings and I unashamedly immerse myself in them.

Cleo is a journalist who writes about her online dating life, it's not going well so when her boss suggests she does something a little different for the column and wants to send her somewhere remote to marry herself Cleo thinks sun and secluded beach.

She ends up on a remote Irish Island called Salvation in a little lodge beside the beach but unfortunately there has been a slight mishap with the booking and the owner's American cousin Mack, has also turned up.

Mack's life back home is complicated, separated from his wife, he's a photographer and he felt there was no better time for him to come, take photographs and connect with the Island that was in so many of the stories told to him by his maternal grandmother.

With no other place for either of them to stay and only a weekly boat to and from the island they are forced to share the lodge much to their dismay.

The book is written from the perspective of Cleo and Mack, not in alternating chapters but when the book dictates and it flows well.

There is not one unlikeable character in the book and the setting is described perfectly I'm left wanting to visit Salvation and meet them all, stay in the lodge, drink in the pub, scream on Wailing Hill, skinny dip in the secret cave and join the knitting circle.

This was such a lovely, easy read that I didn't want to put it down.

Big thanks to Penguin Books and Netgalley for the ARC

Cleo lives in London and is a writer. She has a dating column in a successful online women’s magazine. Her column focuses on her (failed) dating attempts and her search for her flamingo (her happily ever after). As she is fast approaching her thirtieth birthday, her editor thinks that it would be a great idea to self-couple and marry herself. Cleo is not sold on the idea but finds herself shortly after aboard a small boat on her way to Salvation Island.

On arrival at Otter Lodge she is surprised to find someone else there - an American man who has also booked the lodge. After much deliberation and with a storm fast approaching they both agree to spend the night in the lodge and seek a solution when the storm has passed.

Unfortunately though there is no solution (and no way to the mainland except the once a week boat service) and so they must learn to both stay in the lodge. So not what Cleo was expecting or hoping for as she was contemplating life or Mack who came to put some space (approx 3,000 miles) between him and his estranged wife and sons while exploring the island that is part of his heritage.

Both of them find far more than they bargained for and fall in love with the island and it’s inhabitants. However what will become of them.

A truly magical love story as much about learning to live yourself as falling in love. Slightly confused by the title though as they are on the island way longer than one night.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced read copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.