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Now aĀ USA TODAYĀ andĀ Publishers WeeklyĀ bestseller!
āPatti 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 Callahanās expert hands, revealing a connection so persuasive and affecting, we wonder if thereās another like it in history. Luminous and penetrating.āĀ āPaula McLain,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Paris Wife
In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.Ā
FromĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called āmy whole world.ā When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewisāknown as Jackāshe was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasnāt 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 couldnāt destroy.Ā
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 werenāt meant to have a voiceāand yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didnāt know they had.Ā
At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writerās life,Ā Becoming Mrs. LewisĀ is above all a love storyāa love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.
āPatti 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.āĀ āPam Jenoff,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Orphanās Tale
Ā āI was swept along, filled with hope, and entirely beguiled, not only by the life lived behind the veil of C. S. Lewisās books but also by the woman who won his heart. A literary treasure from first page to last.āĀ āLisa Wingate,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Before We Were Yours
Ā āProfoundly evocative, revealing an intimate view of a woman whose love and story had never been fully told . . . until now . . .Ā Becoming Mrs. LewisĀ is a tour de force and the must-read of the season!āĀ āMary Alice Monroe,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Beach House Reunion
"Patti Callahan somehow inhabits Davidman, taking her readers inside the writerās hungry mind and heart.Ā We keenly feel Davidmanās struggle to become her own person at a time (the 1950s) when women had few options . . . An astonishing work of biographical fiction."Ā āLynn Cullen, bestselling author ofĀ Mrs. Poe
"Patti Callahan breathes life into this fascinating woman whose hunger for knowledge leads her to buck tradition at every turn."Ā āDiane Chamberlain,Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Dream Daughter
This book title, Becoming Mrs. Lewis (Expanded Edition) - 9780785218098, ISBN: 9780785218098, by Patti Callahan, published by Thomas Nelson (March 24, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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