Surprised by Love
Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis

The amazing journey of a brilliant American poet/novelist, a militant atheist and Communist who converted to Christianity and improbably ended up marrying C.S. Lewis. This is a story of God's grace and a striking example of the truth that "His ways are not our ways."......more

I did not have a four-star expectation of this book, and it bordered on a five-star experience. I started reading it out of a desire to round out my knowledge of her husband. But Joy is captivating in her own right. She is at least captivating enough to hold the reader's interest for the length of t......more

Quite lovely! This is a short and easy introduction to Joy's life and her relationship with Lewis. I enjoyed seeing Lewis from the perspective of an American woman of the time.......more

Years ago, I knew a society woman with a golden son: beautiful, hard-working, single. She had in mind the kind of woman who'd make a proper wife: polished, refined, perhaps a Wellesley graduate. Instead, he fell in love with a country girl of little education and less sophistication, but who knew ho......more