Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

October 19, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she’s his talented, volatile, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. To design experts, she’s a legendary architect. But to 15-year-old Bee, she is quite simply Mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman […]

Tiny Book Haul

December 16, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

I had a pretty busy and stressful week last week, so when Friday afternoon rolled around and I realised the weekend had started, I decided to treat myself to something nice… When I turned 19 (over a year ago, I’m now 20) I got two book vouchers for my birthday, and one of them was […]