Jean Moreau is not your ordinary monk. He is a spiritual man, to be sure, but he is very human. Temptation rocks his world – learn how he copes and what his trials can teach us. He values his connection to the Divine, and he shows us practical and useful ways to reconnect, as he recounts his incredible story. A good read with the backdrop of a surprising lifestyle. A very human tale and a parable for modern times. This is Book One of the Abbey of Kervennec series.  Clark will also be discussing his soon-to-be-released second and third books.

Clark Eide is a writer in several genres. His series, The Abbey Chronicles trilogy, are the memoirs of Jean Moreau, modern day monk at the fictional Abbey of Kervennec in France. Through trial and error, passions and emotions, his love of a woman, and struggles with his own demons, Jean Moreau arrives at answers and methods, some traditional but some not at all traditional, to satisfy the longing in his soul for Truth. The novels are entertaining stories incorporating thoughtful ideas on life and connection, as we follow Jean on his journey to personal gnosis. (You’ll learn a lot about monasteries, too, along the way!)

Eide loves poetry and has written it all his life. He offers readers a cross section of it in his book, My First 70 Years, Collected Poems. He says, “there is no art form more personal, more beautiful.” He also has a series of short books on Virtues, those unheralded but tremendously important key components to a happy life. It is all in his Jean Moreau’s Little Books of Wisdom series.

As a onetime entrepreneur and native of the United States, now living in France, Eide’s study of things spiritual has taken him around the world – from the USA to London, from France to Australia, and Ireland to India. His encounters and experiences have taught him that spirituality is about one thing only — direct connection to the Divine — as part of, or independent of, an organized religion. He says, “when we make the effort to go within and gain Awareness, we will find that connection, and the resulting path to temporal and spiritual contentment.” In his writings, he looks to synthesize what he has learned along the way and to incorporate that into story form and real-life drama.

Enter the life and times of Jean Moreau. Enjoy the novels and see what you can pull from his experiences.

“Impressively well written and consistently compelling from beginning to end, A
Monk’s Way, is as thoughtful and thought-provoking as it is unfailingly entertaining…
very highly recommended for community library General Fiction collections…”  —Midwest Book Review