Meet me at the seaside cottages

by Jenny Colgan

352 pages, Paperback

Expected publication June 18, 2026

About the author

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including 'The Little Shop of Happy Ever After' and 'Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery', which are also published by Sphere.' Meet Me at the Cupcake Café' won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was 'Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams', which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013.

For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter.

Jenny Colgan has also been published under the name Jenny T. Colgan.

Reviews

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! I don’t know how Jenny Colgan continues to top herself with every book she writes!

I just finished so I’ll have to organize my thoughts but there are fantastic characters and six puppies!!!





Pubs May of 2026!

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages focuses on the lives of Janey and Essie in the Scottish village/town of Carso. Characters from The Summer Skies and Close Knit also make cameo appearances. Janey is a 52 year old audiologist, divorced and living in a small cottage on the Seaside. Her son works with wildlife management and her daughter, Essie, has recently returned home after being laid off from her position. Essie finds herself helping a local acquaintance from high school renovate 3 seaside cottages, and Janey becomes involved with a local architect, who is also the 'grandparent' of 6 new puppies.

This Jenny Colgan book took me longer to get invested in that usual. I was at about the 30% mark before I really was hooked. I found that this book seemed to have less snappy dialogue and more run-on-sentences that were way too long.

I received an Advanced Reader Copy via NetGalley.

[Char Grell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyager and Jenny Colgan for the advanced readers copy.

Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages is a warm, feel‑good contemporary novel by Jenny Colgan, set in the Scottish isles. It blends themes of second chances, family dynamics, and rediscovering confidence in midlife.

I saw "Scotland" and "moving to the seaside" and requested a copy of the book. Having visited Scotland for the first time in the Spring of 2025, I fell in love with it & have been learning more and more about the country.

I am not a fan of romance or typical "cozy" books - since this didn't slip nicely into either genre, I really enjoyed it.

The characters that come with living in a small town & everyone knowing your business. The flawed parent/child relationships. The "high school" people etc. All came together for a fun and dare I say "cozy" story.

I did figure out early on what was up with the boyfriend ... so there were no big surprises.

I enjoyed the writing, the slip of Gaelic and the setting very much.

Thanks again to NetGalley & Avon and Harper Voyager for the advanced readers copy.