The Overlooked Hope for Narnia’s Susan Pevensie

Even in the pages of C. S. Lewis, the best is yet to come.

“Where’s Susan?” asked my daughter as I read to her The Last Battle, the final book in The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis.

Susan is the child queen who helped her siblings save Narnia from the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. However, she is conspicuously absent from an early scene in The Last Battle that includes every character who traveled to Narnia as a child.

“Daddy, where is she?” my daughter asked again.

“We’ll see,” I said, with a tinge of sadness. Read More