About the Author

Nola Hearts is an author, immigrant, and former nurse. Her work draws on lived experience  from apartheid-era South Africa to America, and now the Netherlands, exploring identity, grief, and spiritual integrity with practical clarity. She writes for readers navigating major life transitions - offering truth, perspective, and quiet companionship.

Between Two Lives

*Between Two Lives*. --- It’s a reflective memoir about grief, migration, and the courage it takes to begin again. Written with warmth and honesty, this book draws the lived experience to explore what it means to lose, to leave, and to rebuild a life across places and seasons. Between Two Lives speaks to those who find themselves living between identities, homes, or chapters, and offers comfort, perspective and quiet companionship along the way.

Book cover design by: Janneke van Zanten- van Wijk