Shadowlands by Leonore Fleischer

 Most Unlikely Enchantment

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, radial 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 began with a visit that should have been a disaster but somehow wasn't. 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...