AusRom Recommends: Ella Carey’s ‘Secret Shores’
AusRom Recommends: Ella Carey’s Secret Shores
From the author of the acclaimed Paris Time Capsule a story inspired by the much discussed discovery of courtesan Marthe de Florian’s abandoned Parisian apartment, comes a brilliantly crafted story of tragedy, mystery, and long-hidden secrets. Ella Carey’s newest novel, Secret Shores, is our AusRom Recommends novel for the month.
Secret Shores
Ella Carey
In 1946, artist Rebecca Swift’s dreams of love and a life free from convention are crashing like the waves of the Australian coast below her. And it’s into those roiling waters that she disappears.
Forty-one years later, Tess Miller’s dreams are crashing, too. The once-successful New York editor has lost her most prestigious author to the handsome new golden boy of publishing. Meanwhile, she’s stuck with Edward Russell, a washed-up Australian poet writing a novel about some obscure artist named Rebecca Swift. But Tess may have underestimated Russell. His book is not only true—it’s a searing, tragic romance and a tantalizing mystery set in a circle of postwar modernists. When Tess uncovers a long-hidden secret, she’s drawn even deeper into Rebecca’s enigmatic life and death.
As Rebecca’s past intertwines with the present, Tess finds herself falling for the last man she thought she’d ever be drawn to. On the way, she discovers the power of living an authentic life—and that transcendent love never really dies.
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