CS Lewis’s lost letters reveal how wife’s death tested his faith

During the final weeks of his life, the Narnia author wrote to a US academic about his struggle with grief and theology

The great tragedy of CS Lewis’s life was the loss of his wife, Joy Davidman, to cancer in 1960. Her death tested the faith of the Chronicles of Narnia author, who was also a prominent Christian thinker.

Now a cache of previously unpublished letters from Lewis, written in the months before his own death, reveal the extent to which his grief remained raw, even as he confronted his own physical decline and mortality.

Just to see the handwriting, you get a sense of Lewis’s personality. He was a very intense but warm person

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