Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. A sudden windfall takes them across the Channel to France. Is it a coincidence that Gemma has a name like Flaubert's Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. A sudden windfall takes them across the Channel to France. Is it a coincidence that Gemma has a name like Flaubert's notorious heroine, that she is bored and adulterous? Is she inevitably doomed? ...Continua Nascondi
