Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan

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Once Upon a Wardrobe

by Patti Callahan

Published by Harper Muse on October 19, 2021
Genres: Historical Romance
Pages: 320
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From the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes another beautiful story inspired by C. S. Lewis’s ability to change the world and captivate hearts—including those of a terminally ill boy and his logic-driven sister.

Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford with dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics.

But equations haven’t been able to solve her biggest problem: her brother George, whom she adores, has a failing heart. It has been failing for all eight years of his life. When George is given a copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there’s no way she can refuse.

And so Megs moves completely out of her comfort zone, imploring the author and famous tutor of English Literature to give her the answers her brother so desires. What she receives instead is more stories . . . stories of Jack Lewis’s life, which she takes home to George.

Meg keeps trying to impose her trusty logic on the stories, but she slowly comes to realize that lists never answer the biggest questions. The gift she thought she was giving George turns out to be the one he was giving her: hope.

Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan is about love, loss, and imagination.

Can Megs deliver on a promise that she made to her brother?

Megs Devonshire

Megs Devonshire is a seventeen-year-old girl who went to Cambridge’s college at their girl’s university back in 1950. She has a younger brother named George, who’s eight years old, and he’s also dying. George gave Megs a hard promise to deliver to him about finding out where Narnia came from. Megs is just a girl trying to help her brother even though she can’t, and Megs is a lover of math, not fiction books, until she read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with her little brother. I like Megs because she doesn’t stray from what she knows, and granted, yes, she tries to see everything as a mathematical equation instead of how a normal person sees things. Megs loves her little brother so much that she risks a lot of things to contact Mr. C.S. Lewis and take George on an adventure.

The Story

After being tasked by her little brother to talk to Mr. Lewis, Megs doesn’t know what to expect from the professor until they meet up. She gets to know not only Mr. Lewis but Warnie, his brother, along with all of their adventures. Megs also gets to know a boy she wrote off as not even a potential friend when they first met earlier that year. She spends more time with him and sees that he isn’t who she first thought he was. Mr. Lewis never really answers her or George’s questions, but the three of them do become good friends.

Four Stars

Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan evokes many different emotions while I was reading this book. Ms. Callahan does a great job of transporting me to the wintertime of 1950s Cambridge. I felt so sad for the Devonshire family and everyone else that knew George. My rating for Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan is four stars and I’m recommending it to everyone. But especially for those that read Historical Romances, there is a bit of romance between everything else that is going on.

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Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:

• 2022 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
• 2022 Goodreads Reading Challenge

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