Author Event: The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 am UTC+10:00

47 Jardine Street Kingston ACT 2604 | Canberra

The Book Cow - Kingston
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Author Event: The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker
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**PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS HAD A CHANGE OF DATE, FROM AUGUST 22ND TO OCTOBER 3RD**
Join us in store when we welcome emerging author Camille Booker to chat about her latest novel, The Woman in the Waves.
ABOUT THE BOOK
There’s something sinister lurking in the waves…
It’s 1921 in Widow’s Peak, a gloomy fishing village on the south coast of New South Wales. Nineteen-year-old Missy Green fills her days helping her fisherman father on his trawler, and spending time with her grandfather, the town’s reclusive lighthouse keeper. It’s a dreary existence. Everything in her sea salt-soaked life is upended, though, when she glimpses something in the water – a mermaid ominously staring at her.
When Missy discovers the dead body of a woman washed up on shore, her disturbing hallucinations of the mermaid gather steam.
Missy must navigate the treacherous waters of her secret-filled town while attempting not to drown in the recesses of her mind, and the eyes of a handsome detective…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Camille is an author, creative writing teacher, and PhD student. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and is currently pursuing her PhD, also in creative writing. Her debut novel, What If You Fly?, was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019, was runner up in the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize in 2020, and was published in 2021.
In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Novel Writing Course. During that time, she wrote her second historical fiction novel, The Woman In The Waves, which was then shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award, runner up in the 2023 CYA Conference Competition, and won both the Grand Prize of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize, and was published in March.
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