num_pages: 239
description: Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death.
language: English
title: A Severe Mercy
titlecomplete: A Severe Mercy
genres: Religion, Theology, Biography, Christian, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Christianity, Memoir, Faith, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 20236
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: Religion/Inspiration (Paperback), awardedAt: 252489600000
name: ECPA Christian Book Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Harper and Row