by Maria Semple
Brilliant, poignant, devastating, heart-wrenching, funny - I loved this book! This is full of frustratingly awful bullies like next door neighbour Audrey Griffin, untrustworthy do-gooders like admin officer Soo-Lin, and the poor troubled victim Bernadette Fox.Bernadette is an award-winning architect, but stopped building after an incident which changed her life in more ways than one. She moves to Seattle with her husband and daughter, Bee, but yet again another incident occurs which results in her disappearance. Her life is told through correspondence put together by her daughter, who vows to find the truth behind her mum's disappearance, and find her again.
This novel is currently on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 (winner to be announced June 5th). It gets my vote.
