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Author: Patti Callahan | Narrator: Fiona Hardingham
Once Upon a Wardrobe
Coming Oct 19th!
Named one of Time Magazine’s top 100 novels of the century, C.S. Lewis’s "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is one of the most beloved books of all time. Yet, how many readers know the story behind the story that inspired Lewis to create his magical world of Narnia?
Thankfully, New York Times and international bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel, "Once Upon A Wardrobe" sets out to do just that. In this tenderly imagined and enchanting story, Patti pulls back the curtain on the early life of C.S. Lewis.
“Where did Narnia come from?”
The answer will change everything.
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 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.
ONCE UPON A WARDROBE
By: Patti Callahan
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-19-21
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Muse
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 Meg 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.
About the Narrator
Fiona Hardingham is an award-winning actress and audiobook narrator whose credits include work in film, television and theatre. She is the recipient of several AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards and an American Library Association Odyssey Honor, and was listed in YALSA’s Top 10 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults in 2015. PRH Audiobooks
Fiona Hardingham is an actress and producer, known for Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) and Dynasty (2017).
About the Author
Patti Callahan is a New York Times 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. WEBSITE