She would ultimately retire in 2021 as she asserted that it was finally time to say goodbye to her fans and fiction writing. Ever since she lost her husband she has actively been visiting her children and grandchildren spread across several states in the US.įollowing the death of her husband, Ellie Dean was devastated since he had been her friend and companion for decades. She now makes her home in the East Sussex town of Jevington, where she lived with Geoffrey Oliver her husband until his demise in 2020. While she is based in the United Kingdom Ellie, Dean loves to travel to Australia every year to go research her plots and settings most of which are based there.Įven though she was successful under her real name, she found even more success as Ellie Dean.ĭean’s Cliffehaven series of novels has sold more than a million copies over the years and has been translated into more than 15 languages across the world. She would kick on from there to pen more than a dozen novels since then.

While she started out writing historical romance as Tamara McKinley, she decided to venture into the writing of Sagas in 2011 when she penned her debut novel “There’ll Be Blue Skies.” Ī fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).Ellie Dean is the pseudonym of bestselling author Tamara McKinley, who is best known for her sagas. And Sally is forced to work out where her true loyalties lie. Sally gets a job in a uniforms factory to help pay her way - and to pay for Ernie's expensive medicines - but then Florrie arrives in Cliffehaven, bringing disaster with her. When they arrive in Cliffehaven, they're taken to live at the Beach View Boarding House where they're welcomed by the open-hearted Reilly family headed up by warm, loving Peggy, and life begins to improve.

Playing mother is nothing new for Sally - their real mother Florrie, a good-time girl, hasn't even come to the station to wave them off and Ernie, crippled at an early age by polio, is used to depending on his older sister.

All she knows are the sights and sounds of London's East End - but Sally swallows her tears as they leave the familiar landmarks behind, knowing that she has to be a Grown-Up Girl and play mother to her six-year-old brother Ernie. When sixteen-year-old Sally is evacuated to the English south coast, she is terrified by what lies ahead of her. THE FIRST CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN

There'll Be Blue Skies by Ellie Dean