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Picking right up after the shattering end-of Gustave Flaubert’s vintage, Madame Bovary, this beguiling book thinks a solution for the query Whichever happened to Emma Bovary’s orphaned child? One year after her mother’s destruction and only one day after her father’s brokenhearted death, twelve-year-old Berthe Bovary is delivered to survive her grandmother’s impoverished plantation. Amid the wonder of the French countryside, Berthe versions for the artist Jean-François Millet, but destiny has more available for her than the usual peaceful life of simple joys. Berthe’s dedication to increase above her mother’s scandalous past will require her in the harmful cotton mills of Lille to some convent in Rouen for the success and style of nineteenth century Paris. There, being an apprentice to famous designer Charles Frederick Worth, Berthe is brought in to the high-society which she once-only imagined.