Book Review - Welcome to Ferry Lane Market by Nicola May

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Title: Welcome To Ferry Lane Market

Author: Nicola May

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Publication Date: 22nd July 2021

Rating: 5 Stars

Although thirty-three-year-old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of going off to study floristry. But she couldn't bring herself to abandon her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower stall ever since leaving school.

When her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary.

Then an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. And there begins the first of three trips of a lifetime, during which she will learn important lessons about herself, her life and what she wants from it - and perhaps find love along the way.

Nicola May is onto the start of another winning series here, as I loved Welcome to Ferry Lane Market and already feel the wait for the next book will be too long to cope with!

Admittedly I did find it took a while to feel fully at home with this book, I was missing Hot the dog from Cockleberry Bay (from the author's previous series), although a cat called James Bond and a terrapin called Sid Vicious are great animal companions, to go alongside Kara, and everyone at Ferry Lane market. 

I really took to Kara quite quickly and once I sorted out all the other characters I was fully engrossed in the story, The sheer amount of story, character developments, surprises that are jam packed into this book is so impressive, and it all works together so well. 

For me the book really took off to another gear of my love of it when the plane ticket to New York that is mentioned in the blurb, happens. I won't go into details as its far enough into the story that it would be spoilery - but the travel lover in me was loving Kara who has barely never left Cornwall, suddenly abroad and seeing how she sees the world, and gains confidence is just so wonderful to see. 

Kara is loyal to her family, who I really enjoyed getting to know, has a fab best friend, Star, and a nightmare of a boss who clearly doesn't appreciate Kara.  

Full of heart, mystery, laughter, travel, hear warming moment, humour, romance, mystery, set to a great back drop with incredibly real characters that you will take to your heart, this is a gem of a book! 

There is just so much to love about this book, and feel like it has set up the rest of the series perfectly, given how much I really want to read the next book instantly! 

Thank you to Hodder and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.