The Stone Table hailed as a ‘seamless recreation’ of CS Lewis’s style, but this addition to the acclaimed series of children’s books may never be published
Francis Spufford has taken a break from writing award-winning adult literature to fill in the details of what exactly went on in Narnia before The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. But he isn’t expecting his novel, set in CS Lewis’s magical world, to be published any time soon.
Spufford, who has been writing for the past three and a half years without the permission of the Lewis estate, began Narnia story The Stone Table on a family holiday to entertain his daughter Theodora. After he had published books including a novel of 18th-century Manhattan, a personal exploration of Christianity and a study of the USSR melding fact and fiction, his daughter “had been lobbying for me to write a book she would enjoy for some time”, he said. But the novel was also a “present for my younger self, though sadly I have no Tardis to deliver it to him”.
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