Used book – The Half-Boarder, Didier van Cauwelaert

What do you do when you fall in love with a young woman over lunch, only to discover over dessert that she uses a wheelchair?

Hélène is a Leo with a Leo ascendant, an aerial acrobatics champion. She's the sexiest, most joyful, and most challenging woman Thomas has ever met...

Torn from his routine, shaken, and captivated by this "day boarder" who introduces him to true freedom, he will ultimately realize that it was he who was living like a cripple. And that a woman sitting down can sometimes help a man get back on his feet.

Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt for Un aller simple, Didier van Cauwelaert offers us here a wild, funny, and tender love story, hailed by critics as one of his great successes.