Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Everyone knows who C.S. Lewis is, but I had no idea who his wife was or how they met until a friend picked this work for book club. 

This historical fiction account of how Jack and Joy became acquainted, fell in love, and ultimately married is as twisting a romance as any fiction author could create. 

There are insurmountable obstacles to overcome and yet the reader is aware the whole time that they will ultimately end up together. I spent the book wondering how and when. 

Ms. Callahan brings these real people to life on the page, full of thoughts, emotions, and challenges to help you feel as if you really know them and that you're there in post WWII America and England. 

I listened to the audiobook and give high praise to Lauren Woodward for giving voice to these beloved souls. 

Which based-on-real life romances have you read that thought were stranger than fiction?

AMAZON

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 professor and the beloved writer of The Chronicles 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, found 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 and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.