Becoming Mrs. Lewis

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Have a peak at a brand new read!  Becoming Mrs. Lewis is a great new book shedding another light on the popular author C.S. Lewis and his less known wife.  Our family are huge fans of the writings of C. S. Lewis so I was greatly excited to get a chance to read this book!  I received a hardback copy(just like the one you can win in the giveaway) so that I could read and review this great book.

The book is 405 pages long.  Oh but the inside book cover, it’s astounding.  It’s astonishing.  I’m in love with it!  It reminds me of the maps and illustrations in the Narnia series.  Oh guys.  I’ve read biographies of Lewis.  I know of his life, his works, but I didn’t know the story of his wife or her life before Lewis.

This book is fantastic.  I really didn’t ever want to put it down, but I needed to.  That put down time is needed to digest everything that you learn and read.  There is so much meat in this story.  Talk of love but more importantly or redemption.  This book shows the nitty gritty and the hard.  So much life had to be overcome for Joy, she had so much she had to come to terms with. 

I’m in awe.  At first I was in shock.  C. S. Lewis is a larger than life persona.  But his wife.  She’s a real person.  Probably a person that a lot of Christians today would shun if they knew all this.  Whew.  It’s something.  Most importantly though it’s a story of redemption and finding out who she was meant to be.  Being pushed to overcome and know who God is in a way that sometimes people don’t seem to want.

All in all I’m still digesting.  I’m probably going to have to read this book again.  It will definitely remain on my library shelf.  However, it’s not one that I’ll be letting my teenage daughter read just yet.  

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

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 and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Patti Callahan (who also writes as Patti Callahan Henry) is a New York Times bestselling author. 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. Her work has also been included in short story collections, anthologies, magazines, and blogs. 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 lives in both Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina, with her husband.

CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR: website | facebook | twitter | instagram

TOUR GIVEAWAY

(2) winners will each win a hardcover release copy of Becoming Mrs. Lewis.

Be sure to check out each stop on the Blog and Takeover tours for more chances to win. Full tour schedule on this tour shown below. Giveaway began at midnight March 12, 2019 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on March 19, 2019. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. Due to shipping cost, only US mailing addresses valid. For our giveaway rules and policy, click HERE.

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