Bernard and Pat (Paperback)
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Bernard and Pat (Paperback)

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Published: 03/11/2022
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I suppose that these are the horses from which we are thrown.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
How do we best see? With eyes old or new?
How well do we rise after falling?

Catherine is small and everyone else is big. The world has lots of rules which she cannot keep up with, and lots of things happen that just don't feel right. With Dad gone and Mum at work, Catherine spends her days with Bernard and Pat. These are days that she will never forget but never quite remember, either.

Bernard and Pat is a tour-de-force, a novel deeply aware of the peculiarities of memory and the vulnerability of childhood. Catherine's voice is unforgettable.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472155252
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 145 g
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 20 mm


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Bernard And Pat is an exquisitely crafted, beautiful little book, which asks startlingly brave questions about how the past invades our present and makes us who we are. - Elanor Dymott, author of Slack-Tide

Bernard and Pat is terrifyingly immersive and brilliant, it reminded me of Nabokov, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Barbara Comyns - Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Factory

Bernard & Pat by Manchester-based author Blair James, is the story of an adult Caty, reliving her experiences, in her childhood voice, with her childminders, Bernard and Pat. It's a book with a persistent power and writing you won't be able to get out of your head. The present and past in the book are locked in a kind of battle that seems unshakeable - Grazia

[Catherine's] voice is intriguing . . . memory and the tricks it plays are at the centre of this intense piece of writing - Fanny Blake, Daily Mail

Written in short, titled segments, the childlike narration takes us back to her babysitters, Bernard and Pat, and to life after her father died when she was a small girl, lonely and confused in an adult world . . . The adult tone that begins to disrupt the child's perspective is exceptionally well drawn as the whole picture is revealed, little by little, with growing suspense. Acutely observed, and psychologically on the button. Superb - Ruth McKee, Irish Times

Powerful debut - The Sunday Times

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“Heartbreaking, Psychologically on point, Experimental Form”

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“Extraordinary and Immersive”

Bernard and Pat is an extraordinary novel which defies being bound by any neat labels. At once a mediation on memory and the vulnerabilities of childhood, startling trauma punctuates the prose with the force of a... More

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