In Joy Davidman, C. S. Lewis truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. But only briefly, as Joy died months after they married.
Brian Sibley skilfully looks at Lewis's childhood, his literary legacy and shows how, in the end, despite grief and painful doubts, Lewis's faith shone through.
Shadowlands is also a BAFTA winning BBC film, a stage play by William Nicholson and a feature film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.