The Correspondent by:Virginia Evans

A beautifully written debut novel told largely through the letters and emails of Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies. Sybil has spent a lifetime expressing herself through correspondence — to family, friends, even famous authors — and now those letters become a way to chart her inner life: her regrets, her wit, her love, and her deepest losses. When unexpected communication from her past forces her to confront a long-buried pain, she must finally reckon with forgiveness, connection, and the stories we tell about ourselves. It’s a quiet but deeply moving meditation on life, memory, and the power of the written word.