The Five-Star Weekend
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A NEW STREAMING SERIES ON PEACOCK STARTING JULY 9, STARRING JENNIFER GARNER, REGINA HALL, CHLOË SEVIGNY, GEMMA CHAN, AND D'ARCY CARDEN. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket : After tragedy strikes, food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket.
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life―her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline―grow deeper.
So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”―one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife―she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.
The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it happens, has many secrets.
The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other. Global streaming platforms and markets for THE FIVE STAR WEEKEND series: US - Available on Peacock
UK – Available on Sky and NOW
Australia – Available on BINGE
Canada – Available on STACKTV
India - Available on The Peacock Hub on JioHotstar
New Zealand – Available on Hayu Read more
Editor's Take
The Five-Star Weekend is widely described as a breezy, Nantucket-set beach read with strong emphasis on female friendship, family drama, food, and emotional payoff. Amazon readers and book-review snippets praise the setting and the “sun-drenched” feel, while Goodreads comments are more mixed, with some readers loving the friendship and food elements and others finding it light or frustrating.
Review sites and critics generally frame it as comfort fiction: enjoyable if the goal is escapism, but not especially challenging. Goodreads and book-review summaries suggest many readers appreciate Hilderbrand’s familiar style and satisfying ending, while some say it feels predictable or “brain-candy” in the best or worst sense.
On Reddit and other forum-style discussions, the overall impression tends to mirror the broader audience response: readers who enjoy Elin Hilderbrand’s Nantucket novels like the atmosphere and character dynamics, while readers looking for sharper plotting or deeper complexity are less enthusiastic.
- Amazon reviewers highlight the beachy Nantucket setting and emotional drama.
- Goodreads readers are split between loving the friendship/food focus and finding it too light.
- Review blogs and critics mostly call it an easy, escapist summer read.
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Specifications
| Illustrated | No |
Product Details
| Publisher | Little, Brown Paperbacks |
| Publication date | February 13, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 384 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0316259187 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0316259187 |
| Item Weight | 12 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.4 x 0.97 x 8.2 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #76 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2 in Family Life Fiction (Books) #2 in Mothers & Children Fiction #2 in Women's Friendship Fiction |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (87,036) |
