It’s fascinating to explore their relationship which involves a respect and admiration for the other’s intellectual and creative endeavors, a shared love of nature and the mystical, a deep friendship, as well as romance. I don’t want to go too far into the facts but Joy Gresham was an American, married with two young sons in 1950, when she entered into a correspondence with C. I was excited to learn more about their life (with a little bit of flair as it’s biographical fiction) but it’s dead boring and very frustrating.

I wish I hadn't read this book because I'm not sure whether or not the Joy represented here is true to character--though I fear it is--or if she is representing, rather, what image the author wants to put down in paper. Bonding over a shared love of literature and ideas, a deep connection is forged between the two, who embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Lewis is above 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. But I loved her all the more for her faults and I loved Lewis himself all the more for the glimpses we get at his own weaknesses or uncertainty. I found it a bit slow at times, but was crying by the end because I just loved following their story.She, leaving her boys behind with their father and her cousin explore Lewis's world, that of Oxford and Cambridge, and of course finds herself falling for the author.

The main thing that bothered me is that Joy and Jack both sought the "approval" of God through the Church of England, as if the church can rightly say yes or no to what God, Himself, approves or disapproves. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Patti was a finalist in the Townsend Prize for Fiction, has been an Indie Next Pick, twice an OKRA pick, and a multiple nominee for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Novel of the Year.Joy’s ill health leads her to take time away from her home life and America and to travel to England where she meets Jack, as Lewis prefers to be known, and his brother, Warnie.

This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: “Nothing will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. Loughborough High School forms part of the Loughborough Schools Foundation, a Company Limited by Guarantee and a Registered Charity in England and Wales. She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. Baring that, this was a poignant story of friendship and love, of happiness found, and of knowing that at any time when life seems to be at its lowest ebb, there is hope. While I thought I was familiar with the story, I learned something new on every page, and polished this off in an enjoyable two days.I will note that this is not a book for the faint of heart, it is not a book for those who are looking for 100% clean fiction, and it is not a book for a casual read. 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. If you’re a historical fiction fan, or someone who loves a bit of ‘faction’, then this is an ideal read for you.