Secrets at Ocean’s edge. Kali Napier. 2018.

1932. Ernie and Lily Hass, and their daughter Girlie, have lost almost everything in the Depression; all they have keeping their small family together are their secrets. Abandoning their failing wheat farm and small-town gossip, they make a new start on the west coast of Australia where they begin to build a summer guesthouse. But forging new alliances with the locals isn’t easy.

Into the Hasses’ new life wanders Lily’s she’ll-shocked brother Tommy, after three harrowing years on the road following his incarceration. Tommy is seeking answers that till cut to the heart of who Ernie, Lillie and Girlie really are..