75 years of Narnia

For its 75th anniversary, my reassessment of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in The Sunday Times.

"Lewis’s childhood was unhappy — at his Hertfordshire boarding school he was ‘beaten, cheated, scared, ill-fed’. He believed it was a good training for a Christian life because the seemingly endless wait for the holidays was like living in the hope of Heaven."

Illustration by Pauline Baynes