Patti Callahan Henry
Jul 16, 20193 min
Toronto, ON Canada | Wednesday July 17, 2019 at 7PM EDT
July Events at Indigo: Join Indigo's CEO and Chief Booklover Heather Reisman as She Discusses Her Heather's Book Club Pick Becoming Mrs. Lewis with New York Times Bestselling Author, Patti Callahan.
Join us for Heather’s Book Club to discuss July’s pick Becoming Mrs. Lewis Indigo’s Chief CEO and Book lover Heather Reisman, CTV Morning News Anchor Marcia Macmillian and NYT bestselling author Patti Callahan will discuss this fascinating historical novel. Audience Q+A and book signing to follow.
In Conversation: Patti Callahan
Public · Hosted by Indigo, Chapters and Coles
Location: Indigo Bay Bloor
55 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M4W 1A5
Wed July 17, 2019 7pm EDT
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Now a USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and The Globe and Mail bestseller!
“Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan’s expert hands, revealing a connection so persuasive and affecting, we wonder if there’s another like it in history. Luminous and penetrating.” —Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife
In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.
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. View Videos, Podcasts, Inspiration Behind the Book, Book Club Kit, Plus more.
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times best-selling author of fourteen novels, including the (Historical Fiction), BECOMING MRS. LEWIS—The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis. Now a USA TODAY, Publishers Weekly, and The Globe and Mail bestseller. (writing as Patti Callahan)
Her fifteenth novel, THE FAVORITE DAUGHTER, (Southern Contemporary Fiction) was released June 4, 2019, and is available now.
A full-time author and mother of three children, she now resides in both Mountain Brook, Alabama and Bluffton, South Carolina with her husband. Visit her website to learn more.