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Camille Booker is an author, teacher, and PhD candidate. In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Write Your Novel Course, during which she wrote The Woman In The Waves, her second novel. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award, runner up in the CYA Competition, and the Grand Prize winner of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. When she’s not writing, you can find Camille scavenging for sea glass on the shoreline of Dharawal Country, where she resides with her family.
‘This utterly compelling book has such a haunting, gothic atmosphere. I felt bewitched by it long after I'd finished reading.’ Lorna Peplow, CBC alumni ‘The Woman In The Waves is that rare combination of lyrical prose with propulsive plot. The beauty and power of the landscape and Missy’s stake in myth and legend will stay with me for a long time.’ Lindsey Armstrong, CBC alumni ‘Missy and Shaw are characters that continue to stick with me, long after first reading. This haunting novel is full of stunning prose, evocative of dark and disturbing shadows in a vividly written landscape.’ Rebecca Lewis-Smith, CBC alumni ‘Booker is a master of gothic noir. Gripping, intriguing, evocative, The Woman in the Waves will sweep you away and leave you gasping for more right down to the very last haunting breath.’ Skye Stranger, CBC alumni ‘A sublime novel, beautifully written with a real hint of menace. Camille’s ability to create such a real sense of time and place is astonishing. It stayed with me long after I’d turned the last page.’ Sarah Brewer, CBC alumni
