‘Secret Shores’ by Ella Carey is a historical saga, told over two timelines, post World War Two Melbourne Australia and 1980s New York.

Rebecca Swift is a young artist in 1946 when she meets Edward Russell. It is love at first sight, but he is very much part of the Australian aristocracy, the total opposite of Rebecca. The question is, will she be accepted into his family or not?

In the 1980s, Tess Miller is an editor in New York and is distraught due to everything going wrong and her ending up working with an unknown poet, Edward Russell an older man who hasn’t written anything in forever.

As time goes by and she begins to receive his work to read, she realises this is his autobiography and it reads like a love story. His wife has passed away previously and the memories of his first love, Rebecca, have never faded. How can Tess begin to get Edward to admit this is actually a true story? Then the secrets begin to be revealed, which does not make Tess’s job any easier.

I always find an Ella Carey book can transport me to the time and place that the book is set in and a mesmerising read for me. I have loved every single story she has written. She always creates characters that I can empathise with and they are well developed too. A book for any historical saga fans out there.

Thanks to Ella Carey, Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book for my review today.