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lharvey250 · 5 years

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Becoming Mrs. Lewis

The Improbable Love Story Between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

“What in the world would ever become of us if we should ever grow brave.”

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SUMMARY

Joy Davidman is a writer and poet living in Ossining NY in 1946. She is locked in a loveless marriage with her alcoholic husband, Bill Gresham, and their two young sons. In a moment of desperation, she says a prayer to a God she doesn’t believe in and has an overwhelming experience that causes her to want to find out more about Christianity. She writes to Christian apologist C. S. Lewis with questions about God. Lewis responds, beginning a long-term correspondence between the two. Joy finds friendship, solace and wisdom in the letters she receives. By 1952, her husband is both unfaithful and abusive, but Joy can find no way out. Her health is suffering from the stress, and she is under doctors orders to rest. She heads to England for six months, where she meets Lewis for the first time. She falls in love with both England and Lewis, but ultimately must return to the US. There, she is fully committed to divorcing her husband, and returning to England with her two sons. Once she returns to England, Joy is ever hopeful her platonic relationship with Jack, will be transformed into something more.

“You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality.“

“God might not fix things for me, but he would be with me in whatever waited ahead, that was clear.”

REVIEW

BECOMING MRS. LEWIS is a fascinating historical love story of two literary giants. Joy was a intelligent and strong woman with a voice far ahead of her time. Patti Callahan Henry has recreated the exquisite details of the improbable friendship and ultimate romance between two people a world apart geographically, spiritually, and emotionally.

I particularly loved Henry’s vivid descriptions of Lewis’s home, The Kilns, as well as the depictions of the joy-filled times the two shared together, going for walks or sitting in front of the fireplace sharing stories. While this is a work of historical fiction, readers of C. S. Lewis will absolutely love a glimpse at the personal surroundings, thoughts and feelings of the man behind the beloved characters of Aslan and Wormwood.

Henry’s writing is evocative and masterful. She was inspired to write the story because of her love for the fascinating works of C. S. Lewis. Once she read Lewis’s A Grief Observed, she was committed to finding out more about the women he loved so fiercely he called her “his whole world.” Henry researched Joy’s writing and traveled to the Wade Center at Wheaton College where Joy’s papers are kept alongside C.S. Lewis’s. BECOMING MRS. LEWIS is her fourteenth novel.

“We can’t just surrender to our every desire. Man must have his principles and live by them regardless. Our nature must must be controlled or it can ruin our lives.”

Publisher Thomas Nelson

Published October 2, 2018

Narrated Lauren Woodward

Review www.bluestockingreviews.com

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pernettewellslove · 3 years

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Patti Callahan's Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis was entertaining and informative. Historical fiction at its finest. Would recommend it for CS Lewis, and Patti Callahan fans and historical fiction readers.

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wcs53 · 3 years

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Day 1 of #springtimereadsmar21 is TBR. 📚 This month I’m going with some I’ve already started, along with a few rereads, and one ARC from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I’ll see how it goes. 📚 #bookstagramchallenge #bookaddict #igbooks #instabooks #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #marchtbr #tbr #librarythingearlyreviewers #cslewis #thegreatdivorce #ploughpublishing #breadandwine #patticallahan #becomingmrslewis #tishharrisonwarren #prayerinthenight #tierafletcher #gingerrue #wonderwomenofscience #christinefaragher #othervoices https://www.instagram.com/p/CL50dxUAFUo/?igshid=mat8h3fivmka

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akindofsinglelady · 4 years

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elizabethvantassel · 5 years

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What’s on your #TBR list? I had my stack sitting by the window and thought it would be fun to share! it’s all @lindsaywrites fault because she’s always encouraging us in her wonderful new book to do #alltheimpossiblethings ! I am reading #coralbook by @saraellawrites 📚I am really looking forward to sharing the #DeadSeasquirrels a really cute series by @mike.nawrocki with my younger son, and I am reading #bydarknesshid by @jill_williamson_author ♥️ My kids and I are listening to the audible of #avoiceinthewind by #FrancineRivers – that’s a life changer – and also I am re-reading #theglasssentence by #segrove - one of my all-time favorites. Add into the mix are #theprincewarriors by @priscillashirer and @ginadetwilerauthor 📚 and #becomingmrslewis just for me, by @pattichenry I’m also excited to start the 13 series with #theglasscastle by @jerrybjenkins and @trishawhitepriebe ❤️ . Are you enjoying fall? I noticed the tree outside my window just turned pretty colors right next to our shed. I put a little fox there because we used to have a fox family that would watch the sunrise with two of its pups on top of the shed every morning. They are pretty precious and I always see squirrels doing their antics in the tree when I am writing. What are you looking forward to reading? https://www.instagram.com/p/B3-c3_5gWwW/?igshid=ts9kar17yzdq

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fredhandbag · 5 years

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A great used book haul. Dry is by Neal Shusterman (Scythe) and his son. Heard good things about Becoming Mrs. Lewis. And a great-looking, hard-to-find hardcover of Cussler’s Raise the Titanic. Book is old enough to have an $8.95 original price. Do you have a favorite used bookstore? #usedbooks #2ndandcharles #dry #nealshusterman #raisethetitanic #clivecussler #orphanmonsterspy #becomingmrslewis #mybestfriendsexcorcism #bradsbookhaul #bookstagram #bookshelves #bookswithcharacter #bookhoarder #bookworm #sodacityreads #bookish #bookreview #hardcover #bookcolector #bookaddict #bookcover #bookhaul #bookspines #goodreads #homelibrary #fiction #crimefiction #thriller #ya https://www.instagram.com/p/B3aAQ0Ig6gz/?igshid=177fmzdsnkjd6

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debi14in2014 · 5 years

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JUST READS TOUR: Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan

JUST READS TOUR: Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan #BookReview #BlogTour #BecomingMrsLewis

Welcome to the Blog Tour for Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan with JustRead Publicity Tours! We continue the Becoming Mrs. Lewis celebration on social media starting March 14.

ABOUT THE BOOK Title: Becoming Mrs. Lewis Author: Patti Callahan Publisher: Thomas Nelson Genre: Historical Fiction Release Date: October 2, 2018

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judycollinsmustreadbooks · 6 years

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Becoming Mrs. Lewis

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

By: Patti Callahan Henry

ISBN: 0785224505

Publisher: HarperCollins/ Thomas Nelson

Publication Date: 10/2/2018

Format: Hardcover

My Rating: 5 Stars + “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.” —Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice. In a God beyond the religion of her birth, she found faith. From New York 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 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 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 above all a love story—a love of literature and ideas, a love of God, and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.

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