The French Lover's Wife

When Lucie Lerner—obsessed with all things French since ninth grade—meets Pierre at a grad school party in 1973, she allows herself to be whisked away for adventures in faraway Mexico and France without resistance . . . but two years later, with one controlling husband and a colicky baby at home, she finds herself increasingly on edge. She tries cooking, weekend trips, sexcapades—but in the end, it takes a women’s writing group to help her see what she really needs.