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Ella Carey

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Ella Carey is the USA Today and Amazon charts bestselling author of Secrets of Paris series, as well as the standalone kindle bestsellers, Secret Shores, The Things We Don’t Say and Beyond the Horizon, set around the brave, unsung Women’s Airforce Pilots of World War Two.

A New York Secret is the first in Ella's new Daughters of New York series and published on March 12th, 2021. Laced with all the glamour of New York, the book is set in an exquisite Uptown restaurant where Lily Rose is training to become head chef in the 1940's. Ella traveled to New York to research the book, which involved going incognito on foodie tours, visiting some of New York's most famous restaurants, and exploring the atmospheric streets of Greenwich Village. The who Ella Carey is the USA Today and Amazon charts bestselling author of Secrets of Paris series, as well as the standalone kindle bestsellers, Secret Shores, The Things We Don’t Say and Beyond the Horizon, set around the brave, unsung Women’s Airforce Pilots of World War Two.

A New York Secret is the first in Ella's new Daughters of New York series and published on March 12th, 2021. Laced with all the glamour of New York, the book is set in an exquisite Uptown restaurant where Lily Rose is training to become head chef in the 1940's. Ella traveled to New York to research the book, which involved going incognito on foodie tours, visiting some of New York's most famous restaurants, and exploring the atmospheric streets of Greenwich Village. The whole experience resulted in her developing a serious addiction to cannoli, a passion for The Strand Bookstore, a love for The Village, along with six new novels set in New York, all to be published in the coming years.

The second book in the series, The Lost Girl of Berlin, released on July 12th, 2021, and is set in the aftermath of the Second World War amongst the ruins of Berlin and then, in fabulous post war New York, and the third book in the series is The Girl from Paris, telling the story of Vianne Mercier, a Parisian fashion designer who travels to New York, and for whom beautiful couture is a fairytale.

Ella was born in Adelaide, Australia, and was educated at the University of Adelaide, completing a music degree in classical piano at the Elder Conservatorium, and an arts degree with a double major in History and English Literature.

Ella lives in Melbourne, Australia with her family. Ella's house is run by one very elderly and adored Italian Greyhound, and one cute puppy called Sassy who thinks she is the boss! And Ella's garden is managed by four chickens, Miss Pertelote, Annie, Harriet and Fox's Dinner.

Ella has recently signed a nine-book deal with Hachette UK imprint Bookouture. Bookouture have published all of Ella’s previous books, which have reached over one million readers in English alone, and are also publishing Ella's New York series for publication in 2021, 2022 and 2023. This sweeping historical series of six books, featuring unforgettable characters, will tell the stories of dazzling hopes and difficult dreams in America, before, during and after the Second World War.

Ella's New York series and her Paris Secrets Series have been sold for translation into many countries into over twenty languages.

When she’s not writing, Ella enjoys studying Italian, walking along the beach, travelling when she can, and spending time with her family and friends. She also loves to chat with her readers, and would be delighted for you to join her lovely group of long time readers on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ellacareyaut..., and on her website at www.ellacarey.com, where you can find more information about the background behind her books, and join her mailing list for regular updates about her upcoming novels.

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	The House by the Lake (Secrets of Paris Series, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 19,896 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Time Capsule (Secrets of Paris Series, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 12,266 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From a Paris Balcony (Secrets of Paris Series, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 8,989 ratings — published 2016 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New York Secret (Daughters of New York, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 5,382 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Things We Don't Say 3.76 avg rating — 5,843 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Girl of Berlin (Daughters of New York, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 2,063 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Shores 4.15 avg rating — 1,911 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl from Paris (Daughters of New York, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 1,570 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Horizon 4.29 avg rating — 1,399 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paris Maid 4.32 avg rating — 856 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Huge thanks to the readers who have emailed in asking for book club questions for The Paris Maid. Here they are for you!

Did this book affect the way you see Paris? Do you think you will feel differently going there from now on if you travel to France, knowing the history of what the people went through during the Second World War? Did the book inspire any travel plans to Paris for you?

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Ella Carey liked Lisa Gentry's review of An Italian Secret (Daughters of Italy #1): "Prepare to be totally captivated by glorious Tuscany, both past and present, when you read this newest novel by Ella Carey. The story is told in a dual timeline, beginning with the death of Annie's father in the present and the discovery that she is " Read more of this review »
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Ella Carey and 1 other person liked Cindy Spear's review of An Italian Secret (Daughters of Italy #1): "An Italian Secret is another stunning on the edge-of-your-seat World War II story from the talented Ella Carey. I read it in a day as I could not put it down! A fascinating dual timeline so beautifully written I felt transported to both Tuscany 1944 " Read more of this review »
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Ella Carey and 20 other people liked theliterateleprechaun (cruising, will catch up!) 's review of An Italian Secret (Daughters of Italy #1): "Like her previous books, this debut in the Daughters of Italy, An Italian Secret, centers around an old abandoned building. Contessa Evelina Messina (Tuscany, 1944) and Annie Reynolds (Carmel-by-the-Sea, present-day) both have something in common with" Read more of this review »
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Ella Carey and 2 other people liked Caroline\|Page~Turners's review of The Paris Maid: "Paris, 1944: Louise Basset is a housemaid at the Ritz Hotel in France. The guests of the Ritz are among the most high ranking and most powerful Nazis in France. Louise always has an ear on the conversations going on around her. She would then inform " Read more of this review »
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“best things in life are mad, you know, darling. Instinctive,” he said. “You don’t understand that yet . . . but, in time, you will. That’s where the magic lies. And that, my darling, is what you are lacking in your life.” “What?”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

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“And she wondered if that was one of the brutal things about life, that we did not appreciate how much something meant to us until we were under serious threat of losing it for good, and only then did we panic, only then did we understand the full implications of what loss actually was.”
― Ella Carey, The Things We Don't Say

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“And it struck her then, right here in that space, how little is left when we are gone. How insignificant we all are. This was, she thought, both liberating and sad. In some ways, she realized now, she had taken her life so seriously in the past. How much did it matter?”
― Ella Carey, From a Paris Balcony

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