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

New condition dark maroon boards with gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Praise for Becoming Mrs. Lewis; List of Other Books by Patti Callahan, Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien; Prologue; Epilogue; A Note From the Author; Suggested Further Reading; Acknowledgments; Discussion Questions; and About the Author. Illustrated with front and rear map endpapers entitled Oxford, England 1950. Third printing. "Patti Callahan 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." - Pam Jenoff, author. Profoundly evocative, revealing an intimate view of a woman whose love and story had never been fully told .until now .Becoming Mrs. Lewis is a tour de force and the must-read of the season!" - Mary ALice Monroe, author. "Patti Callahan has written my favorite book of the year.It is both a meditation on marriage and a whopping grand adventure. Touching, tender, and triumphant, this is a love story for the ages." - Ariel Lawhon, author. "Patti Callahan somehow inhabits Davidman, taking her readers inside the writer's hungry mind and heart. We keenly feel Davidman's struggle to become her own person at a time (the 1950s) when women had few options .An astonishing work of biographical fiction." - Lynn Cullen, author. "Callahan keenly demystifies poet Joy Davidman's story and in the telling, shows us the power of a greater love. I was wonderstruck by this novel." - Sarah McCoy, author. "This book is a work of art. Intelligent. Witty and charming. I'm left as spellbound as the first time I met Aslan .with these characters now just as dear." - Kristy Cambron, author. "Pat Callahan took a character on the periphery, one who has historically taken a back seat to her male counterpart, and given her a fierce, passionate voice. For those fans of Lewis curious about the woman who inspired A Grief Observed this book offers a convincing, fascinating glimpse into the private lives of two very remarkable individuals." - New York Journal of Books. "In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice. From New Your Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C.S. Lewis called "my whole world." When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C.S. Lewis - known as Jack - she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed illmatched 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 couldn't destroy. 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 weren't meant to have a voice - and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn't know they had. At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer's life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is about all a love story - a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all." - from the inner front jacket flap.…