The Woman in the Waves

Omg what a book!! This is not my usual genre to read but I feel honoured to have been given an arc to read. I read it cover to cover in one sitting. I can’t remember the last time I did that! It kept me totally captivated as I read. The writing was mesmerizing and made the images come to life in my min......more

Its few and far between I read a book that I truly immerse myself in. I'm a seasonal reader, and I knew that The Woman in the Waves was a book I needed to read in storms and by seas. My recommendation is to read this on a cloudy rainy day, to have English Breakfast tea and a Monte Carlo, to sit in a......more

The Woman In The Waves is a gripping and atmospheric novel with incredibly vivid and sometimes terrifying imagery. From that beautifully haunting cover right through until the final dark and disturbing paragraph, I could not look away from its pages. Beginning on the fishing boat, Senhora ao Vento (T......more

The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker is an incredibly atmospheric, imaginative take on mermaids, folklore and certain health issues. The plot is centred around one of my beloved iconic landmarks—a lighthouse and in one of my favourite Australian coastal areas: Wollongong/Illawarra where I lived......more

Chilling and stunningly executed, a dark novel of considerable power, gothic in its intensity with heart thumping suspense. Set in Widow’s Peak, an isolated New South Wales coastal fishing town, where Missy Green helps her father fish the ocean as shadowy and restless as her thoughts. Her father Gus......more