Camilla's parents are acting up like children, and the same counts for the parents of her best friend Luisa. Camilla's mother is secretly dating a man names Jacques, and Camilla is stuck between loyalty to her parents and the fact that they act up immature.She tries to escape the mess at home ( a posh New York city apartment) and goes more and more out with her best friend Luisa.
Then she meets Luisa's older brother Frank, and they start dating.
They start discussing lots of things during their dates , especially astronomy because Camilla wants to be an astronomer, and Camilla finally seems to have found a trusthworthy person in the mess her parents make of their lives and accidentally take Camilla with them.But then Frank suddenly goes away to a school in Cincinnatti, without saying even a goodbye to Camilla...
This is all set on a background of New York in the 1940's.
I got a copy of Camilla recently in a pack of review books, I never heard about this book before, It is more ''oldie''kind of YA novel, because it was first published in the sixties.
You could really read that this book is a bit dated. Altough I liked the overall idea of the novel, it was just a bit too slow and there didn't was any action in it.
But it also was very classy in a good way, I love books about New York in gone days like the 30's, 40's and 50's, . It is not a book you can read just ''in between''. This is more like the kind of book you have to make time for, otherwise you can get annoyed by the slow paced style of writing.
Worth a try.
