He was an atheist who became the best-selling Christian author in history.... He was an intellectual snob who was transformed into a man who had a mind and heart awake to holiness. He had no children, but few men in history have been so deeply loved by children. He was an Oxford Don and a Cambridge Professor who wrote Mere Christianity, a book through which more people were converted to faith than through any other Christian book in the 20th Century.

He was C. S. Lewis; and his name is synonymous with legendary kindness, intellectual rigor, a love of nature, and perhaps his greatest creations, Aslan and the land of Narnia. Controversial genius that he was. His life is a beacon for those who struggle with doubt and faith.

Derick Bingham, a native of County Down now living in Belfast, has long been inspired by the life of C. S. Lewis. In this biography, he seeks to show the deep influence the environment of Belfast and the nearby County Down had on Lewis’s imagination and sets out to trace the hand of God in seeking one who so actively denied Him.