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'Would that give me comfort?' New Aussie drama spotlights organ donation

In Dear Life, Brooke Satchwell stars as Lillian, a 40-something grieving the loss of her fiance. (Supplied: Stan/Jane Zhang)

A few years ago, screenwriter Robyn Butler asked herself a difficult question: What would my life look like if my husband died?

"When you love someone deeply, you have that feeling every now and again. It makes you realise how much they mean to you."

Soon she began to wonder what that life would look like if she didn't have kids. Would it help to donate her husband's organs?

"If I had donated his heart, would that give me comfort knowing that that existed, living, breathing somewhere?" she says.

Dear Life review – Brooke Satchwell hauntingly good in an otherwise clunky drama

Playing a grief-stricken woman who traces the organ recipients of her late fiance, the actor outshines the rest of this cloying Stan series

In Stan’s new six-part drama, Brooke Satchwell delivers a painfully good performance as Lillian, a distraught widow whose centre of gravity – entire footing in the universe, in fact – has been thrown off by the death of her fiance.

You never doubt her anguish, nor that haunted look in her heavy-lidded eyes, pressed down by grief and the unfairness of a world that never follows a just moral rhythm, tossing her around like dust in a draft.

Photos from behind the scenes of Stan's newest TV drama, filmed in Ballarat

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Lillian lives above a rowing shed on Lake Wendouree, mourning a fiancé lost to a tragic attack.

It's a heartwrenching premise for a new six-part series, but for Ballarat residents watching Dear Life this New Years Day, the setting will feel very close to home.

Actor Brooke Satchwell stars as Lillian, alongside a star-studded cast including Deborah Mailman and Ben Lawson, as she tracks down her fiance's organ recipients.

Dear Life, formerly titled Love Divided by Eleven, was written and directed by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, the creators behind Upper Middle Bogan, the Librarians and the Inbestigators.

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