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Camilla's Roses
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  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593472804
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $38.00

Camilla's Roses

A Novel

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10 June 2025
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10 June 2025
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8 July 2025
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A reissue of a hidden gem from the award-winning author of Sugar, this novel tells the story of a woman who uncovers the fragility of life and the enduring strength of family love.

A reissue of a hidden gem from the award-winning author of Sugar, this novel tells the story of a woman who uncovers the fragility of life and the enduring strength of family love.

Camilla’s childhood was immersed in love and chaos, and steeped in perfection. As an adult she hasn’t looked back, refusing to acknowledge the people and places that scarred her so many years ago. But a cancer diagnosis forces Camilla to turn to the past, and all its pain, to save her daughter.

As Camilla discovers the bittersweet limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, she also awakens an inspiring message about the mortality issues we all must face.

Unfolding in a progression of powerful chapters, Camilla’s Roses portrays a life haunted by the past, and the choices we all make to fight for a future.
  • Published: 8 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593472804
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Bernice L. McFadden

Bernice L. McFadden is an associate professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University and the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Sugar, The Warmest December, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, Glorious, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction), and Praise Song for the Butterflies (long-listed for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
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Praise for Camilla's Roses

Praise for Bernice L. McFadden and her novels:

“A literary explosion...McFadden reveals amazing talent.”
—The Chicago Defender on Sugar

“Riveting . . . so nicely avoids the sentimentality that swirls around the subject matter. I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes.”
―Toni Morrison on The Warmest December

"Simply miraculous... As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates." ―Washington Post on The Book of Harlan