Camille’s Bread — Amanda Lohrey

Title: Camille’s Bread
Author: Amanda Lohrey
Publisher: Angus & Robertson (HarperCollins)
ISBN: 0207188432
Binding: Paperback

Edition: First published 1995

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Light age spotting and minor shelf wear to covers. Pages clean and binding firm.

A thoughtful and quietly powerful Australian novel exploring domestic life, longing, and the search for meaning.

Set in suburban Australia, Camille’s Bread follows a woman navigating marriage, motherhood, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the life she has built. When new relationships and ideas begin to unsettle her world, she is drawn into deeper questions about identity, desire, and personal freedom.

Amanda Lohrey writes with precision and emotional depth, capturing the tension between comfort and change, and the hidden complexities of ordinary lives.

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, this is a significant work of Australian literary fiction.