Fool's Child

England 1667

One warm July evening in 1667 the merchant Peter Standish stumbled into the shop of surgeon Alan Ridgeway with a deep dog bite in his arm. While trying to save his sister Elena from an unhappy marriage, Standish had become the victim of a malicious attack. In his desperate worry about Elena he asks Alan and the Jesuit priest Jeremy Blackshaw for help. Soon the friends discover a terrible family secret, which leads them into the dark world of early psychiatry.