“There wasn’t anyone on the same level as herself until she met Jack. “There wasn’t much in the world that my mother didn’t know about,” he told me.
Contrary to prevailing theories, Douglas says, the marriage was first and foremost a meeting of two magnificent minds. A poignant and powerful account of his mother’s death as well as Lewis’s last days, the memoir recounts the intimate details of his childhood, the move from America to England, and the blossoming relationship between Jack and Joy. Lenten Landsis Douglas’s memoir of his life at The Kilns in Oxford with his brother David, his mother, Lewis, and Lewis’s brother Warnie. In a recent interview, Douglas told me that many biographers have misunderstood Lewis’s marriage. He wept with his stepfather when Joy died of cancer, and led the mourners behind the casket when husband followed wife to the graveyard. The son of Joy Davidman, Douglas watched his mother and “Jack” fall in love and marry.
Douglas Gresham is the last person living who knew C.
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