C. S. Lewis (For Teens)

A writer and scholar from Belfast, born in 1898, who lost his faith as a boy, fought and was wounded in the First World War, and came back to God in his early thirties. He taught at Oxford and Cambridge, gave wartime radio talks that became Mere Christianity, wrote The Screwtape Letters and the Narnia books, and died in 1963.

Yes. It tells how he lied to his father for years, admits that nobody knows the full truth about his relationship with Mrs Moore, and covers his pride, his brother's drinking, his wife's cancer and the grief that made him wonder whether God was cruel.

He was describing the night he knelt and admitted that God was God. He had resisted for years and gave in without joy, because he could no longer find anywhere to hide. At that point he believed in God but not yet in Christ.

No. In 1948 she showed that one of his arguments was flawed, and he took it seriously and rewrote the chapter. But he went on leading the Socratic Club and writing Christian books for the rest of his life, and Anscombe herself called the legend nonsense.

He cared for Mrs Moore for more than thirty years, gave two-thirds of his royalties away through a charity, answered thousands of letters from strangers by hand, and supported Joy's son David when he chose to live as an observant Jew. He could also be overbearing in argument, and he knew it.

From the full-length biography of C. S. Lewis, which draws on his own account of his early life, his letters, his brother's diaries and the work of his biographers, and says plainly where the sources disagree, such as the year he came to believe in God.

That God can pursue you even while you run; that honest doubt and grief are not the end of faith; that keeping your word matters; and that real change in a person usually comes slowly, through ordinary habits like prayer, honesty and serving the people around you.

Not exactly. The film changed the ages of Joy's sons, left one of them out and invented scenes. In fact they married first at a register office so she could stay in England, then again at her hospital bedside in 1957 when she was thought to be dying, and had about three more years together.