Whered You Go Bernadette By Semple, Maria

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.