This leads him to ponder deeply on the nature of faith. At first he felt as if a door had been slammed in his face, when he turned to God.
One aspect I found very striking was how his hitherto strong faith was tested. Initially, he is shocked at how much his grief overwhelms him, forming an “invisible blanket between the world and me”, and he is remarkably forthcoming about how isolated he feels and how difficult he finds it to talk about his loss with family, friends and acquaintances. Each chapter explores a new phase of mourning as he openly and honestly sets out his deeply personal feelings that involve shock, anger, despair and ultimately acceptance. The film Shadowlands (1993), about his relationship with the American poet Joy Davidman Gresham, whom he lost to cancer after four years of an intensely happy marriage, led me to A Grief Observed, his searingly honest, searching meditation on the anguish caused by that loss.Ĭomprising four chapters, the book recounts Lewis’s progression through the stages of grief as he struggles to come to terms with his wife’s death.
CS Lewis was an academic, writer and Christian apologist, best known now for his children’s book series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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