The Erotic Potential of My Wife

Having collected, among other things, cocktail sticks, electoral campaign badges, paintings of moored ships, rabbits' feet, noises at five in the morning, Croatian maxims, staircase ornaments, the first pages of novels, the labels on melons, birds' eggs, moments with you, hangmen's nooses, Hector falls in love.

It's the way she washes windows that does it for him. And so begins his new infatuation, a collection (and recollection) of beautifully observed moments spent observing his wife's every move.

**David Foenkinos** is a French novelist and screenwriter. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. *The Erotic Potential of My Wife* was his first novel to be translated into English. His most recent novel, *Delicacy* has sold one million copies in France and is now a major motion picture starring Audrey Tatou. He lives in Paris.