For sale is this double cassette abridged audio book by Brian Sibley. Entitled Shadowlands - The Love Story Of C.S. Lewis And Joy Gresham, it is read by Joss Ackland and has a running time of 3 hours approx.

Synopsis: "In the summer of 1952 C.S. Lewis met Joy Gresham for the first time. Born a Jew, she was a 37 year-old Christian convert taking time out from an unfaithful husband; he was one of England's leading Christians, author of The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity and the Narnia Chronicles, a confirmed bachelor of 54 and a lecturer at Oxford who delighted in the company of men like J.R.R. Tolkien. 

And so began one of the most unlikely and beautiful love stories of all time. 'We feasted on love,' said Lewis, 'every mode of it - solemn and merry, romantic as a thunderstorm, sometimes as comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your slippers.'  

Shadowlands is a superb account of that triumphant tragic love, for only 8 years later Lewis was writing, 'She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?' and finding no consolation in his faith."

Issued by Harper Collins, the catalogue number is HCA 222 and the date of issue is 1994.

This item is in excellent condition.