La liste de mes envies

Jocelyne runs a little haberdashery in the northern French town of Arras and keeps a modest, much-read blog about sewing. Her life with her husband Jocelyn is comfortable and unremarkable, shadowed by old griefs and small disappointments. Then she wins the lottery — a jackpot large enough to change everything — and, holding the uncashed cheque, she does something unexpected: she hesitates.

Rather than rush to spend, Jocelyne weighs what money would actually buy, and what it might destroy: contentment, the shape of her marriage, the person she has quietly become. Grégoire Delacourt's slim, bittersweet novel is a wry, tender meditation on desire, on the difference between wanting and having, and on the quiet courage of an ordinary life.