Once upon a wardrobe / Patti Callahan.
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TextPublisher: Nashville : Harper Muse, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxi, 292 pages 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780785251729
- 0785251723
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 -- Fiction
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Terminally ill children -- Fiction
- Students -- Fiction
- University of Oxford -- Fiction
- Narnia (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
- Oxford (England) -- Fiction
- Worcestershire (England) -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George's last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. What transpires is a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories.
1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it's just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: "Where did Narnia come from"
Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers.
Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he shares the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life.
After holding so tightly to logic and reason, her brother's request leads Megs to absorb a more profound truth: "The way stories change us can't be explained. It can only be felt. Like love."
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea A captivating, standalone historical novel combining fact and fiction An emotional journey into the books and stories that make us who we are Includes discussion questions for book clubsIncludes a note from Douglas Gresham and a note from the author (pages 273-278).
Includes discussion questions (pages 283-285).
Includes an excerpt from Becoming Mrs. Lewis (pages 289-292).
Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. The younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there's no way she can refuse. Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and his own brother, imploring them for answers. What she receives instead are more stories, stories of Jack Lewis's life, which she takes home to George. Why won't Mr. Lewis just tell her plainly what George wants to know? The answer will reveal to Meg many truths that science and math cannot.