The BBC Radio 2 Book Club PickA Good Housekeeping and Belfast Telegraph Summer PickAn Amazon Best Book of 2025 So Far Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel PrizeA CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION Ann PatchettI CANT PRAISE IT ENOUGH. AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH Clare ChambersYOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH SYBIL. YOU WILL NOT WANT TO LET HER GO Irish TimesI CANT IMAGINE ANYONE WITH A SOUL NOT LOVING IT Lauren BravoSHOWS US WHAT A GLORIOUS THING GROWING OLDER CAN BE Florence KnappA heartwarming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters, for fans of Olive Kitteridge, A Man Called Ove and 84 Charing Cross Road Every morning at around half past ten, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books. Because at seventythree, Sybil has used her correspondence full of sharp humour and hardearned wisdom to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arms length. Until letters from someone she had put out of her mind land on her doorstep, forcing her to reckon with her past mistakes. For as Sybil is about to learn, its never too late to write a few postscripts. Funny, wry and bittersweet, The Correspondent is a gem of a novel about the power of connection, the hubris of...

Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 516 g; Dimensions: 224 x 147 x 27

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