{Fiction Guild Blog Tour} Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis Hardcover by Patti Callahan

Book Description:  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. 

My Thoughts:  This is a beautiful hardback book.  Oh, there is just something about having a hardback book in your hands and turning the pages to read a great story.  It's like love at first sight.

I loved the stories that C.S. Lewis penned....Narnia!   But to be honest I have never thought of him being married.  So this story was one for the books.  😊

It is such an interesting story!  

Joy Davidson is looking for spiritual answers so she begins writing to Mr. Lewis.  But she uses the name Jack.  She isn't looking for romance and she wants answers to faith.

Like C.S. Lewis she is a converted atheists so a mutual friend encourages her to write to C.S. Lewis.

It's a bit of a sad story...to me.  

Joy is a divorcee and decides to take an extended visit to England to visit C.S. Lewis and his brother.

Joy heads home.  Once there she is faced with failing health and poverty.  

She again heads to England where her visa will not be renewed.

C.S. Lewis tells her he will marry her, as a friend only, so that she may stay in England.   This is where the romance begins....

A must read book for all fans of C.S.  Lewis!

*This book was provided for review by The Fiction Guild*

About the Author: 

About Patti Callahan Henry

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times bestselling author of Losing the Moon; Where the River Runs; When Light Breaks; Between the Tides; The Art of Keeping Secrets; Driftwood Summer; The Perfect Love Song: A Holiday Story; Coming up for Air; And Then I Found You; The Stories We Tell; The Idea of Love and The Bookshop at Water's End (July 2017). BECOMING MRS. LEWIS -- The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis is out October 9th, 2018 by Harper Collins/Thomas Nelson. 

A finalist in the Townsend Prize for Fiction, an Indie Next Pick, an OKRA pick, and a multiple nominee for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Novel of the Year, Patti is published in nine languages. Her articles and essays have appeared in Southern Living, PINK, Writer's Digest, Birmingham Magazine and more. Patti is a frequent speaker and luncheons, book clubs and women's groups.

Growing up in Philadelphia as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Patti learned early the value of storytelling. At the age of twelve, her family moved to South Florida where Patti found the sanctuary of libraries and began her slow but steady journey into understanding the power of story to navigate confusing times in life.

Patti attended Auburn University for her undergraduate work, and Georgia State University for her graduate degree. Once a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, she now writes full time. The mother of three children, she now lives in both Mountain Brook, Alabama and Bluffton, South Carolina with her husband.

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (October 2, 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780785224501
• ISBN-13: 978-0785224501
• ASIN: 0785224505