Secret year of Zara Holt. Kimberley Freeman. 2025.

Melbourne, 1927. The summer flowers smell like Christmas the night Zara Dickinson meets Harry holt. Zara is wearing a dress she has designed and made herself: white organdie over a short black slip, with black embroidery and a crimson taffeta sash. It’s party season and the University crowd are celebrating end-of-year exams. Zara loves dancing with the boys nd flirting with them, but it’s a game to her. Nothing serious. Until Harry.

He plans o be a politician once he finishes law. She, a fashion designer, if she can find a way to break out of the secretarial pool. When he takes her hand, she doesn’t want to let him go. The spark they ignite that night will last forty years.

Portsea, 1967. When Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming, his wife Zara loses herself in the memories of their volatile relationship. She always believed Harry when he said no matter what happened, he’d never leave. Their bond has stretched to London, Europe, India, America. It has survived anger, loss and heartbreak, media scrutiny, secrets and lies. But now all Zara wants is for Harry to come home.