The Correspondent

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by Virginia Evans (Author) Paperback 320 pages Released 11th June Discover the word-of-mouth bestselling phenomenon that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of th e year! SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025. AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER. A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK. Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters . . . To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club.All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life.To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself. The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send. Show more