A review by missbryden
Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan

5.0

After getting past preconceived ideas of what the book might be like based on the cover and the title, I really enjoyed the story, found it very engaging, was caught up by the emotions and relationships and wanted to know where it would go. Plus the literary behind-the-scenes is very interesting.
I worried the story would be limited to what the title makes it sounds, like various other titles where the title female character is defined by her relationship as wife or daughter. Also with the title I thought the story would feature more of the years once Joy was actually Mrs. Lewis. Yet while Joy and Jack’s (C. S. Lewis) relationship, and the different kinds of love, is the impetus of the story, it touches on all her life: her childhood and family relationships, her work as a writer herself, her difficult (to put it simply and lightly) relationship with her first husband, also a writer, getting to know herself and forever learning about her relationship with God and how it compares to human relationships.
It’s made me want to read all hers and Lewis’s works, and her son’s writing about them, and track their lives through them.