WHERED YOU GO BERNADETTE PB – MARIA SEMPLE

A NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Shortlisted for the 2013 Women s Prize for Fiction Now a major motion picture, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey RED MAGAZINE 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.