Camille Booker author talk: The Woman in the Waves

Next date: Saturday, 06 September 2025 | 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

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 …

CAMILLE BOOKER is a multi award-winning author with numerous accolades in writing competitions across Australia, the UK and the US. She is also an editor, teacher and literary judge.

$8 Friends members / $10 guests (includes afternoon tea). Everyone welcome.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Tickets are available online, at the library, or call 02 4233 1133.