His father was loving but not well attuned to the personalities and needs of his sons and sent them to a series of terrible boarding schools. Lewis’s idyllic early years ended abruptly when his mother died of cancer. He frames the rest of his narrative around his pursuit of this feeling-and his eventual understanding that it can’t be pursued for its own sake it is, in fact, pointing to something better than itself. Surges of Joy followed Lewis throughout his life. It was a longing not for the miniature garden for itself, but for something just beyond it-and the feeling was its own reward. Looking at a miniature garden his brother once made in the lid of a biscuit tin, his young self was overcome with a longing that was at once painful and delicious.
It was through another game with his brother that Lewis first got the feeling that he calls “Joy”-the theme around which this book centers.
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