Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

Semple, Maria

£9.99

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she’s his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. To design experts, she’s a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. Then Bernadette disappears, and Bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman trying to find her place in an absurd world.

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Publish Date: 04/07/2013

Description

‘Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey’ Sam Baker, RED MAGAZINE
Shortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES bestseller

COMING SOON: The film adaptation, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup

Bernadette Fox is notorious.

To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she’s his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife.
To fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace.
To design experts, she’s a revolutionary architect.
And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum.

Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her.

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE is a compulsively readable, irresistibly written, deeply touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter’s place in the world.

Additional information

Weight 262 g
Dimensions 159 × 203 × 21 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

324

Language

English

Edition

|Paperback original

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K