For many years an atheist C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth & reality of Christianity in his famous autobiography. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in & admitted that God was God.. .perhaps the most dejected & reluctant convert in all Engl&." Thus Lewis describes memorably the crisis of his conversion. ' Surprised by Joy' reveals both that crisis & its momentous conclusion that would determine the shape of Lewis's entire life."