Increasingly dissatisfied with the humdrum routine of corporate life, Jennifer Andrewews does what many of us can only dream about, when in 2014 she and her family pack up and spend two seasons living in a viallage in the South-West region of France. But its not just any region, as Jennifer discovers - the Aude region is on the 42nd parallel north. Wellington, her home city here in New Zealand, is on the 42nd parallel south, and is the nearest thing the Aude has to an antipodal sister city. Parallel Lives tell sthe story of their time in a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees: how they came to live there, the expereinces gained and life lessons learned. In some ways, it's a story that is still being wrtten as they work out to live a long-term life on two sides of the world.