One of our Books of the Year 2013.
Winner of The Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Fiction About Life and Love 2013.
I don’t like books written in emails, journals, notes etc and had not realised this was, just as I hadn’t realised Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was! This has the same feel, same contagious look, same wacky scenario (well not quite), same relentless pull. From page one I was smitten, my dislike for emails forgotten. It is the mother/daughter relationship which is so brilliant, that and the character of Bernadette – a prize-winning architect who doesn’t realise that what she needs in life is a new project. Clever, witty and hugely satisfying.
July 2013 Debut of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
The Lovereading view...
The Curious Incident meets A Visit from the Goon Squad meets The Simpsons - this is a wildly imaginative, laugh-out-loud but also very poignant novel that will generate huge word-of-mouth buzz...
A "Piece of Passion" from the Arzu Tahsin, Deputy Publishing Director, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Fiction...
'It’s the sort of novel that you can’t wait to finish and then feel bereft when you have. It is also an extremely satisfying novel to give to friends and family while you can guarantee they’ll love it too. I don’t think I’ve read anything as irresistibly funny or deeply poignant for a very long time. Bernadette is a wonderful character and there is something of her in us all which is why I found her so compelling. She puts her family under a lot of pressure, but there is something about Bernadette that keeps them on her side. She is a delightful conundrum, and her daughter Bee adores her unconditionally. So, when Bernadette disappears and her husband appears to have reached the limits of his compassion, it is left to Bee to try and find her. And then the novel plunges into a journey to the wild seas and devastating chills of Antarctica. But redemption is a very distant location and almost a hard to navigate as Antarctica itself.
I can promise that it is almost impossible to put this book down.'
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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.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette features in the following genres: Family Drama, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Debut Books of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
Where'd You Go, Bernadette is available in Paperback, Hardback
Where'd You Go, Bernadette was written by Maria Semple and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion
Where'd You Go, Bernadette has 332 pages
£9.89
