I’m very excited to share with you the upcoming release of my memoir.

This is the story of the great love and events that shaped my life behind the lens.

Shelley Saywell

Achingly beautiful. Exquisitely written. If Only Love is an intensely personal journey that wends through many worlds, with the weight of sadness laced with the lightness of a burning love and a boundless spirit. I knew a Shelley Saywell book would be wonderful. This is a gift.

Lyse Doucet, BBC’s Chief International Correspondent and author of “The Finest Hotel in Kabul.”

What if your first love found you again after thirty years?  Does chemistry survive time and space?

 IF ONLY LOVE by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Shelley Saywell is a breathtaking second chance love story, a memoir of reunion and heartbreak, and a testament to what endures when everything else falls away.

 Set across continents and decades, this luminous memoir asks if love can truly endure what life throws at it, and how one message sent across oceans can change everything.