title: The Frenchman's Cat
author: Kathleen, Kelly
description: A passionate love story about a middle aged American woman, Sarah Deshaw who falls in love with a Jacques Martin, a sequestered French scientist, held captive by an abusive elderly alcoholic wife, Nora. Sarah moves to France and begins a secret life on the second floor with Jacques, while Nora the abusive lies drunk in her bed on the first floor.