What on earth can you do when you're young, brilliant, ambitious - and female - in medieval France? That's the dilemma facing the heroine of Mandy Hager's new Novel, Heloise. Based on new research into the life of Heloise d'Argenteuil, famed lover of 12th century French philosopher Peter Abelard, this is a new take on a well-known story with very modern questions at it heart.