RAR #273: Imagining the Childhood of C.S. Lewis, with Judith McQuoid

<p>Many of you will already know that I am a huge fan of The Chronicles of Narnia. Today, I want to introduce my fellow Narnia lovers to a new book that jumped right off the shelf as soon as I saw it. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Giant</em> is a middle-grade novel by debut author Judith McQuoid where we meet Davy, a fictional working class boy from East Belfast, Ireland who is sent to work in the wealthy Lewis household in 1908. There, he forges a friendship with Jacks–as C.S. Lewis was known to his friends and family–over books, stories, and building worlds of imagination and adventure.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Giant </em>is a must-read for Narnia fans that adds a whole new depth of experience to C.S. Lewis’s world and will help you read <em>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe</em> in a fresh way. And today, I’m chatting with the author about what inspired her to write the book, how much of the story is fictionalized, and how the process of writing the book shaped her identity. And you’re goin...