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IrishPenJen (United Kingdom) (2010/06/26):
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Shadowlands tells the unique story of his tragic love. In Joy Davidman he truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. But only briefly, as she died months after they married. Brian Sibley skilfully looks at Lewis?s childhood, his literary legacy and shows how, in the end, despite grief and painful doubts, Lewis?s faith shone through. Shadowlands is also a BAFTA winning BBC film, a stage play by William Nicholson and a feature film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. This new edition is fully expanded and updated.What the papers say:
In the summer of 1952 C S Lewis met Joy Gresham for the first time. Born a jew, seh was a 37-year old Christian convert taking time out from an unfaithful husband; he was one of England's leading Christians, author of 'The Screwtape Letters', 'Mere Christianity' and the 'Narnia Chronicles', a confirmed bachelor of 54 and a lecturer at Oxford who delighted in the company of men like J R R Tolkien. And so began one of the most unlikely and beautiful love stoeis of all time. "We feasted on love," said Lewis, "Every mode of it - solemn and merry, romantic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatice as putting on your slippers."
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