{"id":143951,"date":"2021-08-27T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143951"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:08:44","slug":"patron-recommendation-becoming-mrs-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143951","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: Becoming Mrs. Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis\u2014known as Jack\u2014she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t destroy.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t meant to have a voice\u2014and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn\u2019t know they had.<\/p>\n

At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer\u2019s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is above all a love story\u2014a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis\u2014known as Jack\u2014she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn\u2019t 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Becoming-Mrs-Lewis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-BrN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143955,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143951\/revisions\/143955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}