Camilla
Experience this story of first love by A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L’Engle. This classic novel is now a major motion picture, Camilla Dickinson.
Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson has led a sheltered life on the Upper East Side with her architect father and stunningly beautiful mother. But this winter the security she has always known has vanished, because her parents’ marriage is coming apart – and Camilla is caught in the middle. She finds a way to escape her troubles when she meets Frank, her best friend’s brother, who is someone she can really talk to about life, death, God, and her dream of becoming an astronomer. When Frank introduces her to the important people in his life, who are so different from anyone she has met before, he opens her eyes to worlds beyond her own, almost as if he were a telescope helping her to see the stars.
This novel, one of the author’s earliest, is the story of a girl who, with the help of her first love, leaves childhood behind and enters adulthood with a newfound sense of self and inner strength.
Originally published in 1955 as Camilla Dickinson.
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Reviews
“Its themes and perceptions make it timeless. . . . Tender, understanding treatment of a difficult situation.”
―Bestsellers
“There is a remarkable similarity between this book and J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Both are told in the first person, and both are concerned with the problems of a sensitive adolescent faced suddenly with the necessity of crossing the dividing line between childhood and maturity. Ms. L’Engle’s Camilla has more innate strength and stability than Salinger’s Holden Caulfield.”
―Saturday Review
“A thought-provoking story about a young girl’s first romance, her devastation over her own parents’ marital problems, and the growth of her own sense of self is back in print and should find a wide audience among old and new L’Engle fans. Perceptive and timely.”
―Booklist
Articles
“Madeleine L’Engle Goes to the Movies”
Jeffrey Overstreet, 2012 / Christianity Today
“The First Explorations of Love: Camilla”
Mari Ness, 2011 / TOR