Orphaned Berthe Bovary fights poverty and her mother’s scandalous legacy across mills, a convent, and Paris fashion society in this historical coming-of-age tale.
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Orphaned Berthe Bovary fights poverty and her mother’s scandalous legacy across mills, a convent, and Paris fashion society in this historical coming-of-age tale.
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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 he...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Multiple sexual encounters, including molestation and rape; romantic yearning
Violence & gore
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Dangerous mill labor and period hardship; little graphic violence
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Mother’s suicide by poison referenced as backstory
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Mistress makes sexual advances toward Berthe, which she rejects
Religious content
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Time spent in a Rouen convent; Catholic period setting
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Class disparity, poverty versus wealth, and social ambition themes
Self-harm / suicide
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Mother’s suicide and father’s grief-death drive the backstory
Abuse & suffering
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Child labor; multiple sexual assaults; orphaned poverty and cruelty
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