A literary treasure from first page to last.” Lewis’s books but also by the woman who won his heart. I was swept along, filled with hope, and entirely beguiled, not only by the life lived behind the veil of C.S. “Patti Callahan’s prose reads like poetry as she deftly unearths a lost love story that begs to be remembered and retold. –Pam Jenoff, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Orphan’s Tale The result is a deeply moving story about love and loss that is transformative and magical.” Callahan chronicles their complex and unconventional relationship with a sure voice, deep insight into character and eye for period detail.
Lewis and the much younger American divorcee, Joy Davidman. Lewis, Patti Callahan Henry breathes wondrous fresh life into one of the greatest literary love stories of all time: the unlikely romance between English writer C.S. –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun “Patti 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, a relationship that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives…. Lewis, and his profoundly felt love for her, his best friend, and ultimately this once confirmed bachelor’s lover and wife. LEWIS reveals Joy’s lion-hearted courage, conflicted and disparaged choices, as well as her abiding love for the man we know as C.S. Joy was far more than the dying wife portrayed in Shadowlands and here finally is the true story of a frequently misunderstood woman. Largely rejected by his Oxford don friends, her love for Lewis never wavered. Her circuitous journey from America to England, and back again, was fraught with heartbreak, poverty, risk, divorce, cross-ocean travel, fascinating friendships and great adventure. She was an ex-Jew, ex-atheist, ex-Communist, married woman from New York, the mother of two young boys. On paper, everything about her seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and Christian apologist. Lewis, yet Davidman is rarely given credit for being the muse she was to the beloved author.Ī brilliant writer herself, Joy was a novelist, a critic, a protégé of The MacDowell Colony, and a multi-award-winning poet. Their improbable relationship, which began as a simple correspondence, led to some of the greatest works on love, grief and faith ever written by C.S. LEWIS, is the story of a woman, who, until now, has been overlooked by history, but who was Lewis’s best friend, editor and the only woman Lewis ever loved. Lewis, Patti Callahan’s latest novel, BECOMING MRS. Based on the real life love story between poet and author Joy Davidman and literary icon C.S.
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