Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis

While the novel concentrates on love and marriage, friendship appears important. How does the novel define and describe friendship?

From Dante’s Inferno and Julian of Norwich’s Revelations to Tolkien’s Middle-Earth materials, Becoming Mrs. Lewis includes allusions to other texts. What are the functions of these textual allusions?

Family remains one of the foci of Callahan’s novel. How does the novel depict family and its disappointments?