This autobiography only chronicles C.S. Lewis' early years, from childhood to age 31, his journey from atheism to Christianity. He made a point early on in the book that most autobiographies he'd read himself, he found the childhood and early adult years to be the most interesting part, anyway, and when I stopped to think about it I tend to agree.

CS Lewis uses the analogy of a chess game between himself and God throughout the book which was very apt, but this book is far more of a exploration of human character (in many fascinating forms), literature and philosophy than religion or Christianity. He makes many, MANY references to literature - very little with which I am familiar, but he framed all his literary discoveries so well that I want to study more classics now myself.

What thrilled me throughout this book were those "a ha" moments that always accompany reading CS Lewis. No matter what point of life he is describing (and I have absolutely no experience with English boarding schools or World War I trenches) he is somehow able to communicate universal human foibles and frames of mind so perfectly (and so eloquently) that you feel like you could pop by his house and have a chat about life over tea as if you were old friends.