Gemma Bovery Hardcover - 2005

Media reviews

"A delightfully clever satire on British yuppies and contemporary mores. . . combining large passages of text with amusing line drawings and uproarious comic strips sequences. Ms. Simmonds’s drawings completely embody the tone of this book: bemused affection for her characters combined with delicately barbed sarcasm and fresh, cheeky, wit." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Be prepared to laugh for days on end. This is a masterpiece of visual wit, subversion, and terrible honesty, with Posy Simmonds’s cartoon hand matched only by her prose.”
––Elizabeth Buchan, The Times (London)

“Hilarious . . . Gemma Bovery deliciously exploits Posy Simmonds’s talent for observing, in words and pictures, the absurdities of life among the aspiring metropolitan middle class at home and abroad.”
––Lisa Jardine, The Times (London)

“Gemma Bovery is an original masterpiece. Posy Simmonds’s brilliant drawings and perfect ear for speech make every page pure pleasure.”
––Chris Woodhead, The Sunday Telegraph

“Posy Simmonds has found witty contemporary equivalents for Flaubert’s characters, plot, irony, and even literary devices, and much of the fun of reading about Gemma is decoding the parallels . . . Simmonds makes her cartoon characters three-dimensional and creates a Flaubertian ironic compassion for their suffering and stumbling.”
––Elaine Showalter, The Observer