Secret Shores is a novel set in two time periods. It tells the story of Edward and Rebecca's doomed love story back in in the 1940s and Edward's editor's story in the 1980s.
Tess is a successful editor but like many women, she finds herself struggling with the restraints of being a woman in a man's world. She has to work twice as hard, be twice as good and still she might not be seen as being as good as her male counterparts. When she loses her most successful author to new colleague James, it seems that everything is going wrong. The more that Tess reads Edwards novel and the story of his past, she can't help but reassess her own life and what she wants from it.
This is an emotional read that sucks you in once you start. It's hard not to feel a connection with both Edward and Rebecca as their romance unfolds in the 1940s and Tess as she deals with things in the '80s.
I really enjoyed the story and although I did sense where one or two things were heading, that didn't diminish my appreciation of the story at all. If you like love stories that stretch through the years and stories that wrap you up emotionally, dragging you along with the highs and lows, then I think that you'll love Secret Shores.