A Life Worth Living

<p>A father haunted by his past and the impact of a shocking fact of history on his life. A mother determined to move on from a still-longed-for past and failing. A fearless Duchess refusing conformity. A hermit friar wrestling with his past and the looming power of the Church. A daughter unwanted by her mother and denied choice over her life who finds solace in books and learning and within an unhappy arranged marriage and heartbreak a calling of wolves. Each in their own way on a quest - driven by a need to resolve the past to reckon with the present to create a life worth living. But at what cost?</p><p>Set in seventeenth-century France during the reign of Louis XIV in a Europe torn by war poverty deadly disease religious persecution and life-threatening weather-events Jeanne-Marie Bouvier Guyon her family and wider community play out their lives against a background of both the grandeur and fateful realities of the time.</p>