It was one of those rare occasions - a woman enters a room full of
people and the eyes immediately find another pair of eyes. They
blink, refocus, settle and a spark flies. Whether that spark will
kindle and fan into a conflagration remains to be seen. In the case
of The Jeans, it burned steadily and brightly for 63 years. In this
historical autobiography, Jean Mary Conway tells the courageous,
nearly timeless and inspiring story of the absolute Love of her
Life through photographs, her poetry and the recollections of this
full-of-life octogenarian. Immigrants to Canada from England in the
1950s, Jean Conway and Jean Whiffin managed their lesbian lives in
secret, tucked away on the edge of a two-acre cliff above the
Pacific Ocean on the southern edge of Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, Canada. Never daring to risk it all by "coming out," the
two transplanted Londoners made careers, built their home,
gardened, survived winter storm and flood, and fulfilled their
lives all the while loving each other deeply and privately. When
Jean Whiffin died on April 4, 2012, Jean Conway at the age of 81
was sure she would shortly follow her life-long love from a fatally
broken and abandoned heart. Instead, she found inner courage,
stubborn determination and the support of loving friends that in
her reinvigorated a will for adventure and a new thirst for more
life. The Jeans is an epic tale of escape from war-time childhoods
and leftover Victorian social constraints that traces a couple's
migration, in fact - emancipation, from tradition to their delivery
into a brave new and rugged world not for the timid or
faint-hearted. From Hitler's bombing blitz of London to zip-lining
through the rain forest, this novel, like the lives of the two
remarkable heroines it chronicles, never for a moment idles. The
Jeans, Whiffin and Conway, truly were Partners for Life.
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