Paperback. Pub Date: October 2000 Pages: 112 Publisher: CAPE JONATHAN Gemma is THE bored. Pretty second Wife of Charlie Bovery The reluctant. with the Stepmother of His Children and the Bte-noire of ex Hundred and-Wife HIS. Gemma's sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy. where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine Is it by chance that. like Madame Bovary. Gemma is bored. adulterous. and a bad credit risk Is she inevitably doomed These questions consume Gemma's neighbour. the intellectual baker. Joubert. Denying voyeurism. but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans. every addition to Gemma's wardrobe. her love-bites and lovers . Joubert. with the help of the heroine's diaries. follows her path towards ruin. Adultery...