All the romance, hope, and faith of a perfect love made eternal glimmers in A Severe Mercy.

Shedlon ("Van") and Jean ("Davy") discovered that love so often written of in novels, so seldom found in real life.  Their first meeting in a department store.  The war that tore the world apart but brought them even closer.  Those idyllic afternoons on their boat.

Their love grows into marriage, crosses oceans, and becomes incredibly bound up with a search for faith.  Van and Davy meet C.S. Lewis at Oxford, and through his influence become believers.  The love that was so complete is transformed by the presence of Christ.  

All seems perfect.  And then the unthinkable happens: Davy falls prey to a mysterious illness.  The story of what follows is an almost unbearably powerful tale of faith mixed with sorrow.  Van turns to C.S. Lewis, his friend and mentor, for guidance.  Their letters—here published for the first time—ask tough questions, search for the truth, and show the saving grace of tragedy courageously borne.

No reader will ever forget this tremendously moving reminiscence of two lovers.  A Severe Mercy is testimony to life lived at its deepest and of the conquering possibilities of faith and love.

From the dust jacket