Where'D You Go, Bernadette Av Maria Semple

<p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> bestseller</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction</b><br><b>Now a major motion picture, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup</b><br><br><b>'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' <i>RED MAGAZINE</i></b><br><br>Bernadette Fox is notorious. <br><br>To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. <br>To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. <br>To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. <br>And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. <br><br>Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her.<br><br>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.</p>