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SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

Armstrong, Chris R. Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians: Finding Authentic Faith in a Forgotten Age with C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2016.

Bramlett, Perry C. Touring C. S. Lewis’ Ireland and England. Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 1998.

Davidman, Joy. “The Longest Way Round.” In These Found the Way: Thirteen Converts to Protestant Christianity, edited by David Wesley Soper. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1951.

Davidman, Joy. A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems. Edited by Don W. King. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015.

Davidman, Joy. Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments. Foreword by C. S. Lewis. Philadephia: Westminster Press, 1954.

Davidman, Joy. Weeping Bay. New York: MacMillan, 1950.

Dorsett, Lyle W. And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2009.

Gresham, Douglas H. Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2005.

Gresham, Douglas H. Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

Gilbert, Douglas, and Clyde S. Kilby. C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.

Hooper, Walter, ed. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. Vol. 3, Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950–1963. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. Hooper, Walter, ed. C. S. Lewis on Stories and Other Essays on Literature. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1982.

Hooper, Walter. Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

King, Don W. “Fire and Ice: C. S. Lewis and the Love Poetry of Joy Davidman and Ruth Pitter.” VII: An Anglican-American Literary Review 22 (2005): 66–88.

King, Don W. “A Naked Tree: The Love Sonnets of Joy Davidman to C. S. Lewis,” VII: An Anglican-American Literary Review 29 (2012): 79–102.

King, Don W., ed. Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2009.

King, Don W. Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2015.


(Anything by C. S. Lewis, but most importantly for this novel)

Lewis, C. S. The Four Loves. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960. First published 1960 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed. New York: HarperOne, 2015. First published 1961 by Faber and Faber.

Lewis, C. S. The Great Divorce. New York: HarperOne, 2015. First published 1946 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. The Horse and His Boy. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954.

Lewis, C. S. The Last Battle. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956.

Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950.

Lewis, C. S. The Magician’s Nephew. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: The Bodley Head, 1955.

Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. New York: HarperOne, 2015. First published 1952 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. The Pilgrim’s Regress. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2014. First published 1933 by J. M. Dent and Sons.

Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspain: The Return to Narnia. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.

Lewis, C. S. The Silver Chair. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953.

Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters. New York: HarperOne, 2015. First published 1942 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life. New York: HarperOne, 2017. First published 1955 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. Till We Have Faces. New York: Harcourt, 1984. First published 1956 by Geoffrey Bles.

Lewis, C. S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Chronicles of Narnia. London: Geoggrey Bles, 1952.

Sibley, Brian. Through the Shadowlands: The Love Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2005.

Santamaria, Abigail. Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

Tolkien, J. R. R. “On Fairy-Stories.” In Essays Presented to Charles Williams. London: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Zaleski, Philip and Carol Zaleski. The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.





ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


This novel captured my heart and my imagination as quick and bright as lightening. I owe its fiery force not only to the fascinating and courageous life of Joy Davidman, but also to so many others who contributed to the understanding of her life. I asked, I prodded, I read, I researched, and I could not have written this alone.

From the day I said it out loud, “I want to write a novel that tells the story of Joy Davidman beyond Shadowlands,” there were friends and family who supported the idea with such enthusiasm that they propelled me forward. I am astoundingly grateful for this tribe of writers who knew about it from the from the start and offered an ear, advice, and all-out love: Ariel Lawhon, Lisa Patton, Lanier Isom, Kerry Madden Lundsford, Paula McLain, Mary Alice Monroe, Joshilyn Jackson, J. T. Ellison, Laura Lane McNeal, Karen Spears Zacharias, Dot Frank, Kathy Trocheck, Kathie Bennett, Tinker Lindsey, Lisa Wingate, Jenny Carroll, and Mary Beth Whalen—you buoyed me when I wavered and kept my confidence. Blake Leyers, with her first read, asked me the questions I didn’t even know I needed to answer, and I am grateful beyond measure. To Signe Pike—how do I thank you? This editor (and author) extraordinaire read it from beginning to end and together we took it apart, found its troubles and its triumphs.