Camilla Chance

Outsiders see Camilla Chance as a rebel; but, rather, she is obsessed with sincerity. At age 18 she wrote a novel accepted by a top British publisher, but her father, saying, “My daughter will never add to the superfluity of books in the world,” made her withdraw it. An Aboriginal woman said to a reporter about Chance, now the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Wisdom Man by Banjo Clarke as told to Camilla Chance: the compassionate life and beliefs of a remarkable [Australian] Aboriginal Elder,” “She immediately empathizes with every person she meets.” Yet Chance’s grandfather was best friends with the Russian Tsar, and being presented as a debutante at Buckingham Palace assured her social place … at a price.