- Published: 4 April 2013
- ISBN: 9781448139125
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Frances and Bernard
- Published: 4 April 2013
- ISBN: 9781448139125
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 224
Bauer captures the style and language of the period with gleeful dexterity… Exquisite
Washington Post
Evocative…witty…sparky
Stylist
The characters’ charm and intelligence make them irresistible company
Daily Mail
A story of conversion, shattered love and the loss of faith, recalling 20th-century masters like Graham Greene and Walker Percy… Bauer is a distinctive stylist who can write about Simone Weil or Kierkegaard with wit and charm.
New York Times Book Review
Warm, intelligent and addictive
Katie Allen, The Simple Things
A romantic but heartbreaking novel
ELLE
A truly original, very moving novel about how sometimes the deepest relationships in our lives are also the most impossible. The letters between Frances and Bernard -- which begin as witty, sometimes wary, and full of unusual confidences about love and spiritual matters-- explode with passion on the page. My eyes filled with tears. What a rich writer and two unforgettable lovers!
Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille: a novel of Monet and The Physician of London
Dazzling and gorgeously written... It’s a marvel.
Ann Packer, author of The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words
Not a traditional love story and it comes barbed with sadness, although flashed through with poetry and wit. It is a novel that tricks you with its seeming simplicity but it sticks with you for a long while after you have put it down
Scott Pack, Me and My Big Mouth
Bauer captures the style and language of the period with gleeful dexterity. The prose here is exquisite, winding between narrative momentum and lofty introspection. And she employs the epistolary form nimbly, providing an intimate, uncluttered space for her characters to develop
Teresa Link, Washington Post
Enjoyable
Literary Review
I had ten pages left as the bus pulled into my home station, and I wanted to murder the driver for rousting me from my seat. Instead of heading home, I stood in the parking lot and finished the book right then and there. I did not merely love Frances and Bernard; I worried myself sick over them. And the prose! So delectable you could eat it for dessert.
Monica Wood, author of When We Were the Kennedys and Any Bitter Thing
Its central characters’ charm and intelligence make them irresistible company
Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail
Sentences sparkle on the page… Both intellectual and down to earth, serious and funny
Laura Keynes, The Tablet
Set against the evocative backdrop of 1950s New York, their musings – which start out quick and witty – grow in confidence and intelligence, and before they know it they are inking their hearts out onto the page. This sparky novel will make you want to permanently delete WhatsApp and go back to basics.
Stylist, Top 10 must-reads of April
With some fine writing, this slim volume packs a punch
Choice magazine