Another great book from Erika Montgomery. This book follows Mickey, her mother Hedy and her Grandmother Cora. Cora came to Martha's Vineyard in 1948 as a young bride. The story alternates between Cora's adjusting to married life on the Vineyard in 1948 and 1999 when Mickey returns to Beech House for her Grandmother's second wedding. This is all about falling in love and the love of cooking and feeding loved ones. This was a super sweet, comforting read for me. I really enjoyed it. Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for a copy of this book for review.

Our Place on the Island by Erika Montgomery
Like description of this story as winter is just starting here with the snow falling, nice time to read about summer places.
Starts out when Mickey is at her restaurant with her loving chef and she's notified that her grandmother is remarrying. She is up to her ears with bills and running the business and things are not going well.
She escapes to the island where we find her mother and grandmother. Story goes back in time over the years so you can understand why and how things happen in present day.
Love the cooking, tips about smelly fish and how to get rid of that before cooking *PRICELESS*, mention of her favorite author friends in acknowledgments, the island itself, island living and the cooking, redisgn of kitchen and how it all plays out at the end.
With so much turmoil it's any wonder the family moves on, sells house and calls it a day...
Descriptions of food, smells, atmosphere, sounds all come to the forefront for me as i am RIGHT there with them in the kitchen or walking on dewy grass at night...
Can't wait to read more from this author. So captivating.
Love multi generation of women and their effect on the island as they go through many stages over their lifetime. Beautiful ending, never saw it coming out like it did. Ends with acknowledgments and about the author.
Received this review copy from St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Griffin via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
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This was a great read and will be a really great beach read this summer! Thank you Netgalley for this ARC!

Mickey Campbell returns to her Grandparent's home in Martha's Vineyard for the first time since her grandfather's passing to attend her grandmother's wedding to her newfound love. Or was it so new?? As the story follows the three generations of Campbell women, we get to see glimpses of where it all started through her grandmother's memories of her start on the island. We also get to watch them come together in the present to make the most of the changes to come!

I really liked this story. I love that it was set in an island town. These books always make me want to move to a place like Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket!

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I really love a good girls helping each other out book. This book held so much promise.
It was about Cora, the grandmother and bride to be
Hedi, the daughter, and more focused upon her career then anything
and
Mickey the granddaughter, who is withholding information about how her new restaurant is doing.

All three are on the island for Coras wedding.

Sounds like a wonderful premise.......then it just goes BLAH!

Cora is supposedly hiding this deep dark secret....spoiler...she is NOT.
I was waiting for this big reveal and it was oh, she didn't fit in right away on the island. BIG SHOCKER>
However, even the author had put in these two nuggets of hedi's father being angry at Cora and leaving the table.
It just didn't fit.

Then Hedi was supposedly married for what a year? The time line was a bit off...and yet she hated men, was bitter, and just seemed disagreeable to all...because why? her marriage of a year didn't work out over 25 years ago

Mickey was the only saving grace and was the only character who had an actual backstory.

Overall an uninspiring book that could have been SO MUCH MORE!

What an adorable, heartwarming novel. I was unsure what to expect. I purposefully try to not read the disclaimers and I’m glad I didn’t. This was a never a story I would normally pick. I am so glad I did.

A beautiful story, heartwarming, captivating, all about family and love. Cora, in her seventies, is getting married for the second time. She is marrying Max who she met for the first time when arriving to the island as a new bride. The story is told in two timelines so we learn about Cora’s younger days. The present day timeline starts the day before the wedding. Cora’s daughter Hedy is there and Mickey, Cora’s granddaughter. We learn about the tension in the family over this wedding, the close relationship between Cora and Mickey, financial struggles and taking a risk. This is a terrific story, a family saga.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A wonderful novel to read on a cold winter's day. Three generations of women reunite at the family home on the Cape to celebrate the second marriage of the family's matriarch.. Each woman will have a story to tell ; the grandmother's first marriage and her life on the island; her daughter's experience growing up there and her closeness to her father but not her mother and lastly, the granddaughter who has left and started her own restaurant business. Cooking is a main theme in the story (made me hungry when I was reading it!) and will tie the story together. I enjoyed this book immensely and plan to read the author's previous book.

My thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins for the opportunity to read Erika Montgomery's newest. It was exactly what it he doctor ordered during this dreary post holiday season; a wonderful house on the beach with enjoyable characters. More please!

Our Place on the Island will be on my list of best books of 2023. An absolutely fabulous read that I absolutely adored. I loved Mickey, Hedy, and Cora and how their stories unfolded in the dual timelines. Family, food, and a lot of heart made this novel a great read.

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced copy of this book. This is my honest review.

I was excited when I was asked to review Erika Montgomery’s “A Place on the Island.” I became a fan of hers when reviewing “A Summer to Remember” last year. I remember being excited to see what she could come up with next; fortunately, her sophomore effort is just as enjoyable.

I love stories that take the reader through multiple generations of a family, and this is a great example. Cora is remarrying on Martha’s Vineyard. Her daughter, Hedy, still misses her father and struggles with her mother’s choice to remarry. Granddaughter Michelle (Mickey) has realized her dream of owning a restaurant but it’s about to go under because of poor financial choices.

The story shifts from present to past (where Cora met her future husband as a waitress working at Martha’s Vineyard). The connection of mother to daughter to granddaughter is quite clear. Like many books of this type, there are plenty of secrets as well as a few roadblocks on the way to the wedding. Though nothing is particularly unique about the plot, I found the story and its characters relatable and the writing easy breezy and picturesque. This novel will certainly show up on beach bags around the country when it comes out in June. I cannot wait to see what the author comes up with next.

Thanks to Erika Montgomery, the publisher, and NetGalley for my advanced copy.

It's so wonderful to start a brand new year with a really excellent novel. Erika Montgomery once again and quite effortlessly transported me with her evocative story about three generations of women and their connection to a family estate on the lovely Martha's Vineyard. This women's fiction piece toggles between past and present with all three women taking center stage. Also front and center lies the meaning of the beautifully presented setting and how it's intrinsically woven into the fabric of all three women's lives.

Montgomery's writing is so smooth and seamless; the moving prose rich with meaning and beautifully constructed. With themes of family laced with the complexities of mother/daughter relationships. The duality of past vs. present and how eventually everything comes full circle. The price of failure and the beauty of redemption and hope. The characters were all so interesting, charming, and human that you just couldn't help to root for them while being completely engaged in their plight. The novel also reminds us that the places we hold dear to our hearts have changed us and will forever continue to shape us when we need them to most.

Our Place on the Island provides enchanting romance, and lasting friendship, with just the right amount of real familial drama that is always scored with undertones of unconditional, lasting love. This is a story of maturation and growth, loss and triumph, that - and I just can't say it enough - is written so beautifully it was hard for me to put down and I barely did. I finished and was so enamored with the characters and their journeys that I picked it right back up in the evening and re-read parts that stuck with me. I think that's the best part about this book, it will stick with me and goes straight to my list of re-reads. This author made me an insta-fan with her debut novel, this one solidifies my position as a super fan who will read anything she publishes. I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to have read this great story.

This is a delightful, heartwarming story! Mickey (Michelle) Campbell has finally attained her dream of owing a restaurant. It’s located in an old bank building in Baltimore. Her boyfriend, Wes, is the Chef, so instead of cooking together, she is now buried in administrative details, which is not her strength. Mickey finds she is very behind in paying bills with a pile of past-due notices without the resources to catch up. She is determined she will update Wes on their financial situation – sometime soon.

An unexpected call from Michelle’s mother, Hedy Campbell, announces that Michelle’s grandmother, Cora is engaged and will be getting married in 6 days at her home they have always called the Beech House in Martha’s Vineyard. Although one of her most favorite places, Michelle hadn’t been back to the Beech House since the funeral of her beloved grandfather a few years earlier. Cora is engaged to Max Dempsey, who years before remodeled her kitchen at the Beech House.

This very fascinating story takes us back to 1948 when Cora, a waitress, meets her future husband, Harry. Harry is from Martha’s Vineyard, a totally different world than Cora is accustomed to. After they are married, the story continues with their life on the Vineyard in the 1940s, and then will jump up to the present time, which is 1999, with marriage preparations for Cora and Max and restaurant troubles for Mickey which also creates some issues with Wes when he learns of the financial situation.

This intriguing story is beautifully written with well developed, life-like characters. Secrets are revealed, a near disaster related to the wedding is narrowly avoided. This book kept me turning the pages until the end. I didn’t want to put it down and certainly didn’t want it to come to end.
Thank you to the publisher, St. Martin’s for a complimentary copy of this book. All comments and opinions expressed are my own.

Enjoyable women's fiction/romance in which three generations of women come together for the eldest's wedding to her lifelong love. Cora, in her seventies, tells her story in present day and flashbacks. Hedy, the "daddy's girl," still grieves the loss of her father and can't believe Cora is remarrying. Michelle, Hedy's daughter, is like her grandmother in that she and Cora are both gifted chefs. Although Michelle's acclaimed restaurant is about to go under and her sweetheart and work-partner doesn't have a clue. An enjoyable story by an author who really has a gift for description.