George was diagnosed with a heart condition shortly after his birth. However, he defied doctors’ predictions that he would die before the age of five. George’s health is most fragile in winter when the cold affects his lungs. Due to his illness, most of his life has been spent indoors, and books are his source of escapism. Megs loves math formulas and earned her scholarship through her work on Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. However, the world of George’s imagination is closed to her and her father, who disapproves of the fairy tales his son enjoys.

Megs continues to recount Lewis’s stories to George. When the author was 10 years old, his mother developed cancer. Lewis could not imagine life without his mother, who was a writer and studied mathematics and physics at Queen’s College, Belfast, and taught her sons Latin and Greek. Praying for her recovery, he recalled the day she took them to Dunluce Castle two years earlier. Lewis was overwhelmed with a sense of “longing” when he saw the castle, which was like something out of a fairy tale.

George interrupts Megs, suggesting that Dunluce Castle is Cair Paravel in

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