Jane Metcalfe writes with wisdom. She makes the indescribable accessible, exciting and deeply thought provoking.
Lucy Brown
Features Writer, Yorkshire Times
Things in Heaven and Earth
The mysterious affair of a Hollywood legend and a British writer
A true story
When cinema legend Lauren Bacall met reclusive British playwright Colin Haydn Evans at a Los Angeles dinner party in 1979, their lives were instantly and utterly transformed. This true story – until now a closely guarded secret – describes how they fell irresistibly in love. But their unlikely relationship had much more to it than that. From that first explosive encounter, strange and unprecedented events unfolded that challenged the meaning of normal. Quoting directly from the couple’s diaries, intimate letters and interviews of the time, Things in Heaven and Earth painstakingly and exclusively unveils the course of their five-month affair and the deep bond that lasted their entire lives. A unique adventure through the portal of time, seen through the eyes of Bacall and Evans, it is a drama that is both spiritual and deeply human.
“Jane Metcalfe is a gifted writer with a passionate and unique angle by which to tell this story.”
– MARIANA CAPLAN, PhD, author of Halfway up the Mountain and Eyes Wide Open
From the Blog
The end of summer…
Summer has been coming and going – well – all summer. It’s been one of those seasons that seems to enjoy the game of hide-and-seek here on the south coast of England. When I’ve had enough time to go for a swim or sit on the beach blasts of wind have come out of nowhere or rain clouds have sailed into the sky at the rate of knots! Now it’s officially autumn and the weather game continues to wax and wane; the air temperature like a yo-yo. Today