Madame Bovary of the Suburbs by Sophie Divry - ISBN: 9780857054708
Paperback
Suburban comfort masks a woman’s desperate, absurd quest for meaning.

Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    9 July 2018

Summary

The story of a woman’s life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025.

She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle-classes have grown accustomed to.

But she’s bored.

She takes up all sorts of outlets to try…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857054708
ISBN-10:0857054708
Author:Sophie Divry, Alison Anderson
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:9 July 2018
Weight:204g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 18mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

With its winks and nods to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary , this is one of the most exciting finds of the season

With its winks and nods to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, this is one of the most exciting finds of the season - Le Monde

The most paradoxical novel of the season: depressing, even desperately so, but at the same time, profoundly exalting, gentle and fluid - L Hebdo

One can’t help thinking of Houellebecq when talking about Madame Bovary of the Suburbs - Elle

About The Author

Sophie Divry

Sophie Divry lives in Lyon, France. The Library of Unrequited Love, her first novel, was a bestseller in France and a boutique hit in the UK.

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