![]() Depressed by London life and infuriated by the demands made by Charlie's shrewish ex-wife Judi, Gemma persuades Charlie to sell up and move to Bailleville in Normandy. ![]() Magazine illustrator Gemma Tate has just been dumped by her supercilious lover Patrick Large and is taken in by kindly but impoverished furniture restorer Charlie Bovery, whom she soon marries. Using the journal and personal recollection, Joubert tells the story of Gemma's final few months: ![]() Anxious about what the journal may reveal, Joubert steals several of the most recent volumes. During a visit to Gemma's widower Charlie, Joubert discovers that Gemma kept a journal, which Charlie has not had the heart to read. The story opens with Raymond Joubert, a baker in the (fictional) Bailleville, near Rouen in Normandy, reflecting on the recent death of Gemma Bovery, an English woman who lived in the village. It is the tragicomic story of the life and death of an English expatriate in Normandy, drawing many parallels to Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Originally published as a serial in The Guardian, it was published in book form in 1999. Gemma Bovery ( ISBN 0-2240-6114-3) is a graphic novel written by Posy Simmonds. For the film adaptation, see Gemma Bovery (film).
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