{"product_id":"9780385343879","title":"Madame Bovary's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePicking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubert’s classic, \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary,\u003c\/i\u003e this beguiling novel imagines an answer to the question \u003ci\u003eWhatever happened to Emma Bovary’s orphaned daughter?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly integrating one of classic literature’s fictional creations with real historical figures, \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncommon coming-of-age tale, a splendid excursion through the rags and the riches of French fashion, and a sweeping novel of poverty and wealth, passion and revenge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010931704048,"sku":"9780385343879","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385343879_p0.jpg?v=1763694085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385343879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}