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Book Review of Shadowlands

Shadowlands
Shadowlands
Author: Leonore Fleischer
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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"He was C.S. Lewis, eminent philosopher, world-famous author of THE CHRONICLES of NARNIA, Oxford professor, pillar of the Church of England, and the model of a confirmed British bachelor, with no room for a woman in his perfectly arranged life. She was Joy Gresham, radical divorcee from New York, Jewish-born but a Christian convert, who came to England with a small son in tow to see the author she fervently admired...It turned into a love story that should never have happened - but most wonderfully did, in a tale that proves that truth is more miraculous than fiction when it springs from the magical depths of the heart..."