A review by shellbiz
Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber

5.0

Carolyn Weber, with her Romantic-literature vision offers a truly reflective memoir that took me by the hand, waded me through doubts and hopes, and most of all beckoned me to the feet of the greatest romanticist of all-God. Her novel's title "Surprised by Oxford" a take off from "Surprised by Joy" by the great English writer of both theology and allegory, C. S. Lewis, manages to do Lewis' theme justice. The joy that comes when life's answers are found in Someone greater than oneself. She is neither simple nor naive in her decision to give her all to Jesus while at Oxford, having been discipled by TDH (tall, dark, handsome) in whom she sees great strength and transparency of faith. And she is taken through difficult thought processes, landing her solidly on the side of faith herself. If you like literature, her story, punctuated by literary allusion and metaphor, gives immense gratification to the literary student and to anyone who knows there is meaning to life borne out by what has been spoken by past and present authors.