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...

I ADORED THIS NOVEL - NINA STIBBE LOADED WITH MARIA SEMPLE'S SIGNATURE WIT - BONNIE GARMUS Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and contented divorcee, she relishes her teenage daughter, her job as a moral tutor for an old-money family, and the bliss of finally being solo. She's also quietly assembling a 'coven' of like-minded single...

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...