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Overview
Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death.
Winner of the National Religious Book Award. A portrait of a marriage and faith as well as of the author's friendship with C. S. Lewis.
Synopsis
Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death.
Los Angeles Times
“[A] deep, uncompromising story about human and divine love.”
Editorials
Los Angeles Times
"[A] deep, uncompromising story about human and divine love."Eternity
"A gem of a book . . . delivers an extraordinary impact on the reader."New Oxford Review
"A towering and noble work in its own right, wrought by a real craftsman . .."Washington Post
"No brief review can do justice to the human depth of this book. It invites us to explore a beautiful dollhouse of love and to witness the destruction of a relation too exquisite to last."Christianity Today
"Here is a book for anyone who has truly loved another person."Judith E. Smith
The breadth of Vanauken's reflections is quite remarkable. He is poet, storyteller, and apologist, his writing interspersed with C. S. Lewis's letters. For me, the book evoked tears at many points, confronted me with the lack of rigor with which I think about my own faith, and called me to deeper commitments in my own life. Most of all, it presented a new understanding of God's mercy that I found uncomfortable but provocative-a mercy that can be severe indeed.—Weavings