Secrets from the Past


Secrets from the Past

Secrets from the Past

Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a war photographer who has followed in her famous father's footsteps. When her legendary father dies unexpectedly, she steps away from the war zone to reassess her life.

Serena begins to write her father's biography, takes the first chapters to Harry Redford, his best friend and frontline colleague. Harry asks Serena to go to Venice to look after her former lover and colleague, Zachary North, who has come out of the Afghan battlefields suffering from mental and physical exhaustion. Against her better judgment, Serena agrees to go to Zac's side…

It is Zac who offers to help her tackle her father's huge legacy of iconic photographs. One collection about Venice, entitled La Serenissima, has never been seen before. It is among these images that Serena stumbles across pictures that threaten to turn her world upside down.

In search of the truth about her father, her family and her own life, Serena traces the secrets of the past in a quest to understand a story from decades earlier.


Barbara Taylor Bradford's 28 novels have sold over 88 million copies worldwide. Her books have sold in more than ninety countries and forty languages. A total of ten of her books have been made into mini-series and television movies. Barbara's first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and from then on Barbara has been a household name. She has fans all over the globe and every one of her novels has helped cement her reputation as -queen of the (women's fiction) genre'.

Barbara Taylor Bradford lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.


Secrets from the Past
HarperCollins Australia
Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford
ISBN: 9780007304172
Price: $24.99

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