Title: The Half-Boarder - Didier van Cauwelaert - book
Summary :
What do you do when you fall in love with a young woman over lunch, only to discover at dessert that she uses a wheelchair?
Helen is a Leo with Leo rising, a champion aerobatic flyer. She's the sexiest, happiest, and most difficult girl Thomas has ever met...
Torn from his routine, mistreated, bewitched by this "half-boarder" who introduces him to true freedom, he will ultimately understand that it was he who was living like a cripple. And that a woman sitting down can sometimes help a man get back up.
Winner of the 1994 Prix Goncourt for Un aller simple , Didier van Cauwelaert offers us here a crazy, funny and tender love story, hailed by critics as one of his greatest successes.
