Jack and the Wardrobe by Nicola Jemphrey

Author:Nicola Jemphrey [Jemphrey, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781844276615
Publisher: Scripture Union England and Wales
Published: 2016-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

We got back to Belfast around teatime and Dad dropped Kate and me off at the chip shop around the corner from our house.

“Get yourselves a couple of fish suppers,” he said, handing me a tenner. “I’m just going to take Susie out for a bite to eat, but I’ll be back by nine to give Kate a lift home.”

Kate and I sat in the kitchen and ate our tea without talking much. I was racking my brains thinking what I could do to bring Mum back and get rid of Susie.

“Well we can’t sit around all night doing nothing,” Kate said at last, carrying our plates over to the sink. “Could we maybe watch the Shadowlands DVD?”

At least this would keep Kate busy until Dad came back, and I could carry on trying to work out an action plan without feeling I had to talk to her. We went into the living room and I put on the film.

I’d been learning so much about CS Lewis over the past few weeks that I ended up being drawn into the story without meaning to. I thought Anthony Hopkins acted out the part of Jack really well, though apart from wearing the same kind of tweed jackets, he didn’t look much like the photos I’d seen of him. For some reason the film made out that Joy only had one son, Douglas, instead of two. I suppose it made the story a bit simpler.

As I watched, it struck me that some awful things had happened to CS Lewis: his mum had died of cancer when he was very young and so did his wife a few years after they were married. This was all the sadder because he hadn’t found someone he wanted to marry until he was nearly 60! On the bus tour we’d been told his dad had also died of cancer when Jack was still a young man. I wasn’t surprised Jack started to doubt God near the end of the film. What was really amazing was that after writing a book about his grief for Joy, he kept on believing and trusting in God until he himself died a few years later. How could he not have stayed angry with God after all the bad things that had happened to him?

During the drive back from Newcastle all I could think of was how God had let me down. He seemed to answer my prayers at first, but now, with Dad and Susie closer than ever, he’d knocked me right back. I didn’t see how anyone could have prayed harder than I had. No, praying wasn’t the answer. I had to come up with a better idea to get Mum to come home.

Kate managed to get through the film with just a few sniffles.

“I wonder why they went to that place in England for their honeymoon instead of to Crawfordsburn like they really did?” she asked when it was over. “I know it was the place in

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