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Madame Bovary's Daughter
Linda Urbach
Random House Publishing Group
August 2011
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Featuring: Charles Frederick Worth; Jean-François Millet; Berthe
512 pages ISBN: 0385343876 EAN: 9780385343879 Paperback
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Picking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubert’s
classic, Madame Bovary, this beguiling novel imagines an
answer to the question Whatever happened to Emma Bovary’s
orphaned daughter?
One year after her mother’s suicide and just one day after
her father’s brokenhearted demise, twelve-year-old Berthe
Bovary is sent to live on her grandmother’s impoverished
farm. Amid the beauty of the French countryside, Berthe
models for the painter Jean-François Millet, but fate has
more in store for her than a quiet life of simple pleasures.
Berthe’s determination to rise above her mother’s scandalous
past will take her from the dangerous cotton mills of Lille
to a convent in Rouen to the wealth and glamour of
nineteenth-century Paris. There, as an apprentice to famed
fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, Berthe is ushered
into the high society of which she once only dreamed. But
even as the praise for her couture gowns steadily rises, she
still yearns for the one thing her mother never had: the
love of someone she loves in return. Brilliantly integrating one of classic literature’s
fictional creations with real historical figures, Madame
Bovary’s Daughter is an uncommon coming-of-age tale, a
splendid excursionn through the rags and the riches of
French fashion, and a sweeping novel of poverty and wealth,
passion and revenge.
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