Which C.S. Lewis book explores grief after Joy Davidman’s death?

A Grief Observed explores C.S. Lewis’s grief after Joy Davidman’s death. Lewis published the book in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, initially making it difficult for readers to identify the author.

The short work takes the form of intensely personal reflections on bereavement, anger, doubt, memory, and the struggle to understand suffering. Davidman had died of cancer in 1960, and the book records Lewis’s emotional and intellectual response rather than presenting a conventional biography of their marriage.

The pseudonym was later removed from editions, and the book became one of Lewis’s most widely discussed works. It is sometimes confused with The Problem of Pain, which examines suffering in a more systematic theological way and was published in 1940. A Grief Observed is markedly more intimate, immediate, and autobiographical.