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
Different Clothes
Autumn is well and truly here and with it a time for reflection arises. There’s always something to look back on in the colourful history of ones life. The seasons act as prompts for varying periods of action, rest, reflection, and development, The outer leans into the inner as days grow shorter and the instinct to slow down and to ponder kicks in. At least it does for me, as I sit typing on a chilly mid-September morning, contemplating whether to brave a bracing sea swim or not.