The Woman in the Row Behind - Softcover

To save our marriage I tried offering him another woman. He has started fantasizing about her. He doesn't know it's me...and she is now destroying us. Nina and Roger have a humdrum marriage, not helped by the pressures of their work running a newspaper kiosk on the shaded side of a busy street in Paris. Shuttling between her straight-laced husband, her selfish mother, the father she has never known, and her best friend who has - inconveniently - just split up with her brother-in-law, Nina decides one day to leaf through the girlie magazines she sells every day. She glimpses a world of pleasure and desire, and innocently believes she has found a way of rekindling something that may never have been there. As she explores her own longings and discovers how attractive she is to other men, how can she fail to win back the attention of the man she loves?

Francoise Dorner

Francoise Dorner is an actor, playwright, and screenwriter. In 1994 she was awarded the Prix du Jeune Théâtre by the Académie Française for two of her plays. The Woman in the Row Behind, which won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2004, is her first novel. She lives in Paris.