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Once Upon a Wardrobe

Once Upon a Wardrobe

Current price: $24.99
Publication Date: October 19th, 2021
Publisher:
Harper Muse
ISBN:
9780785251729
Pages:
320
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About the transformative power of books, with touches of fairy tale magic, Once Upon a Wardrobe is for everyone who ever loved The Chronicles of Narnia and wants to make a return trip back into C.S. Lewis’ world.

Taylor Owens, Wilson Book Gallery, Wilson, WY
November 2021 Indie Next List

Absolute balm for the soul, from the first sentence to last. A sister on a quest to find answers from C. S. Lewis for her little brother, with math, storytelling, mythology, and love. This is one book that I willreadover and over again.

Jayne Rowsam, Mystery to Me, Madison, WI
Spring 2023 Reading Group Indie Next List

Description

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 clubs