The Correspondent

The Women's Prize for Fiction winner that has enthralled millions of readers, yours to treasure in a limited run deluxe clothbound edition. Pre-order now.WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'A warm, funny gem of a novel'LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMES'Masterful . . . I was delighted and moved'NEW YORK TIMES 'Immensely enjoyable'GUARDIAN'I can't praise it enough. It's an absolute triumph'CLARE CHAMBERS'What a novel! Tender, dry, sharp...devastating, but still feel good.'PANDORA SYKES 'Tremendous'FREDRIK BACKMAN'Shows us what a glorious thing growing older can be'FLORENCE KNAPP'The year's breakout novel no one saw coming'WALL STREET JOURNAL–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.

Virginia Evans is from the East Coast of the United States. She attended James Madison University for her bachelor’s in English literature. After starting a family, she went back to school for her master’s of philosophy in creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied under tutors including Claire Keegan and Kevin Power. She now lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband, Mark, two children, Jack and Mae, and her Red Labrador, Brigid.