A Grief Observed: Readers' Edition by Jessica Martin, Hilary Mantel, Francis Spufford, Jenna Bailey, Kate Saunders, Maureen Freely, Rowan Williams, C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed: Readers' Edition

Jessica Martin, Hilary Mantel, Francis Spufford, Jenna Bailey, Kate Saunders, Maureen Freely, Rowan Williams, C.S. Lewis

160 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion reflective medium-paced
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In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In resp...

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