Local award-winning author, Camille Booker, is hosting an author talk at Kiama Library about her latest novel, The Woman in the Waves, a gothic historical fiction/crime story set in 1921 on the south coast of NSW.

"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 …"

$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.