Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

Now aÂ USA TODAYÂ andÂ Publishers WeeklyÂ bestseller! â€œPatti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahanâ€™s expert hands, revealing a connection so persuasive and affecting, we wonder if thereâ€™s another like it in history. Luminous and penetrating.â€Â â€”Paula McLain,Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ The Paris Wife In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.Â FromÂ New York TimesÂ bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called â€œmy whole world.â€ When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewisâ€”known as Jackâ€”she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasnâ€™t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldnâ€™t destroy.Â In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women werenâ€™t meant to have a voiceâ€”and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didnâ€™t know they had.Â At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writerâ€™s life,Â Becoming Mrs. LewisÂ is above all a love storyâ€”a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all. â€œPatti Callahan Henry breathes wondrous fresh life into one of the greatest literary love stories of all time . . . The result is a deeply moving story about love and loss that is transformative and magical.â€Â â€”Pam Jenoff,Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ The Orphanâ€™s Tale Â â€œI was swept along, filled with hope, and entirely beguiled, not only by the life lived behind the veil of C. S. Lewisâ€™s books but also by the woman who won his heart. A literary treasure from first page to last.â€Â â€”Lisa Wingate,Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ Before We Were Yours Â â€œProfoundly evocative, revealing an intimate view of a woman whose love and story had never been fully told . . . until now . . .Â Becoming Mrs. LewisÂ is a tour de force and the must-read of the season!â€Â â€”Mary Alice Monroe,Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ Beach House Reunion "Patti Callahan somehow inhabits Davidman, taking her readers inside the writerâ€™s hungry mind and heart.Â We keenly feel Davidmanâ€™s struggle to become her own person at a time (the 1950s) when women had few options . . . An astonishing work of biographical fiction."Â â€”Lynn Cullen, bestselling author ofÂ Mrs. Poe "Patti Callahan breathes life into this fascinating woman whose hunger for knowledge leads her to buck tradition at every turn."Â â€”Diane Chamberlain,Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ The Dream Daughter
Country USA
Manufacturer Thomas Nelson
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-10-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Thomas Nelson
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-10-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

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