Agent: Sarah Burnes, the Gernert Company. Readers enchanted with the version of Davidman and Lewis’s romance presented in the film Shadowlands may be disappointed that the facts don’t fully support what Santamaria calls “one of the 20th century’s greatest love stories.” B&w insert. Though Santamaria describes their relationship as “blissfully happy,” some details indicate that Lewis may have been more ambivalent (he buried their wedding announcement in the Christmas Eve edition of the Times, where few would notice it). Joy succeeded, divorcing Gresham in 1954 and marrying Lewis in 1956. As her marriage dissolved, she left for England hoping to start a relationship with Lewis. Lewis’s writing, became smitten with him after the two began corresponding. The couple dallied with Dianetics before Joy, already interested in C.S. In 1958, Lewis accepted a position at Cambridge as the chair of Medieval.

The marriage was rocky, with Davidman dissatisfied with life as a conventional housewife and Gresham struggling with alcoholism. In 1956, Lewis and American writer and poet, Joy Davidman Gresham, were married Lewis was 58 and Joy was 43. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. , You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me., and To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Nevertheless, debut author Santamaria does her best to fill in Davidman’s scattered life, starting with her days as a student at Hunter College in the early 1930s her infatuation with the Communist Party and poems supporting the cause her first marriage, to author William Lindsey Gresham, in 1942 and the birth of their two sons. is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What You too I thought that no one but myself. Lewis, it’s unlikely that anyone would be reading a book about her. If not for Joy Davidman’s marriage to C.S.

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