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Idea Exchange Virtual Event - Patti Callahan

  • Words Worth Books 96 King Street South Waterloo, ON, N2J 1P5 Canada (map)

Join us as we talk to best-selling author Patti Callahan Henry.

Her latest novel, Once Upon a Wardrobe, is an enchanting heartfelt novel that brings the magic of Narnia back to life. Fans of historical fiction and The Chronicle of Narnia world will not want to miss out on this event. Kayleigh Platz, one of the bloggers from Romance by the Book, will lead this talk. Q&A to follow, so please come prepared with some questions.

Copies of Once Upon a Wardrobe are available here.

Note: This program is virtual and is delivered through Zoom and on Facebook Live.

Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times, Globe and Mail and USA Today best-selling author of sixteen novels and podcast host. She is the recipient of The Christy Award — A 2019 Winner “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti is also a contributor to the weekly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. A full-time author and mother of three children, she now resides in both Mountain Brook, Alabama, and Bluffton, South Carolina with her husband. Her latest novel, Once Upon A Wardrobe, explores the life of C.S. Lewis and the origins of his mythical land of Narnia. https://www.patticallahanhenry.com/

More about Once Upon a Wardrobe: Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics.

She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a copy of a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there’s no way she can refuse.

Despite her timidity about approaching the famous author, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and his own brother, imploring them for answers. What she receives instead are more stories . . . stories of Jack Lewis’s life, which she takes home to George.

Why won’t Mr. Lewis just tell her plainly what George wants to know? The answer will reveal to Megs many truths that science and math cannot, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her, instead: hope.

To register for this free event, click here!