See the World Anew
Through the Eyes of a Child.

A tender, haunting glimpse into the year that shaped young Opal Whiteley’s story.

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Tap-tap-tap. Small pieces of ice tick against the window…

Beyond the glass, a woman in white stands barefoot in the snow, her dress rippling like a shadow in the wind. She turns, and her dark, unblinking eyes find the child at the window. 

A Window Between Past and Present
  • Childhood innocence meets harsh realities.
  • A portrait of resilience in a world of uncertainty.
  • Written with depth, care, and historical authenticity.

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Step to the Window.
Look Between Time.

Experience the world through the eyes of six-year-old Opal Whiteley
where innocence, memory, and mystery intertwine.
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Dr. Reg Grant

Senior Professor Emeritus, Dallas Theological Seminary
Department of Media Arts and Worship

Dr. Reg Grant serves as Senior Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary. In his decades at DTS he has taught courses in preaching, drama, voice, creative writing, and literary studies. Over the last 50 years, he has taken his Bible Character performances and teaching across the United States, Canada, and into Central America, England, and throughout Europe.

Reg has written, produced and acted for radio, television, theater, and film. Two of his films have won Emmys, several have been nominated, and two have received the coveted Golden Apple award for Best Educational Film in America.

Opal’s year will change the way you see
childhood, memory, and time.

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Reviews & Praise

What Readers Are Saying

Finished. BRAVO!

“A Window Between is a literary masterpiece. In the extraordinary character of Opal, goodness, truth, and beauty meet as readers find in her both marginalized outsider and treasured child of God. Reg Grant writes her story with a poet’s sensibility and a mystery writer’s love of suspense. Five stars.”

Dr. Sandra Glahn

Christy fiction finalist for Lethal Harvest: A Novel

A Portal to the Power of Imagination

“Reg Grant masterfully pulls back a curtain to reveal the creative inner world of the late Opal Whiteley—an autism survivor— who found peace through her “thinks” and “prints”, her ideations and writings nurtured as child.  
Based largely on the Whiteley’s diary, Grant takes us on an imagination journey through the reflections of an elderly, mental institution infirmed Opal, as she remembers her menagerie of animals, plants and humans who gave her joy in an otherwise gray and difficult passage as a child of “the spectrum.”
With paint-like words and artfully-nuanced illustrations, A Window Between, is more a walk through a lovely wood than a glass partition—a portal to the power of the imagination to give us refuge against the dark.
I have never taken a nature walk and returned unhappy. A Window Between will leave you in a fearfully and wonderfully made place.”

Olin Fregia, Th.M.

Author, A Forgiving Fire

Both humorous and heart-tugging…

” Not since Scout’s tale in To Kill a Mockingbird have I enjoyed so much the precocious point of view of a six-year-old in an adult novel. A Window Between gives a brilliant peek into the life of Opal Whiteley, an American nature writer who claimed from childhood to be the daughter of French naturalist Henri, Prince of Orléans. Using a blend of Opal’s early diary, historical records of her later years, and a prescient interweaving of imagination, author Reg Grant illuminates the bittersweet complexities of Opal’s neurodivergent experience in this world.
 
Both humorous and heart-tugging, A Window Between captivates. The story bridges Opal’s last days in Napsbury Mental Hospital north of London near the end of the twentieth century and her early, turn-of-the-century days in Walden, Oregon. Opal told many tales about her origins throughout her life, insisting she had been adopted by the Whiteley’s. Grant leaves it to the reader to decide whether her early memories of the death of her French parents and an American adoption are real or the wishful thinking of a child destined to never fit in.
 
I lost myself alongside young Opal as she “walked walks” with her beloved animal friends along the rivière, took the long way to the schoolhouse to check on her tree friends and people friends, and drove her mother mad with her attempts to help with chores. Yet Opal’s story is far from an idyllic romp. Underlying her childhood memories full of both innocent joy and confusing sorrow runs a growing concern for her present situation in the mental hospital, where her condition, misunderstood and poorly treated, threatens an undoing far greater than any beating The Mama could ever give.
 
Opal and her unique perspective will stay with you long after you turn the final page.”

Kelli Sallman

Freelance editor, writer, and writing coach

The Touching Resurrection of a Forgotten Story

A Window Between by Reg Grant is a once-in-a-generation masterwork by one of America’s finest writers. It’s the true story of Opal, a marginalized child of God, told in her own extraordinary way. She was institutionalized and misunderstood her entire life, and would have been forgotten had it not been for Dr. Grant’s touching resurrection of her story. Be prepared to laugh and cry and be changed forever. Five stars.

Fred Holmes

Emmy award winning writer/director of Barney & Friends, Wishbone, and many other children’s TV shows.

Every window hides a story. Open it.

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