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Book Review of Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Becoming Mrs. Lewis


Historical fiction based on C.S. Lewis and his wife Joy Davidman. Details their journey to befriend and eventually love each other. He living in Oxford England and she a married woman loving in upstate New York state with two young boys, an abusive alcoholic husband, a converted Jew, former atheist, ex-Communist turned Christian. Her influence on Lewis' writing is evident in his later works and his road to love at a more advanced age is described from various points in their relationship.