Discover the wordofmouth bestselling phenomenon that thousands of readers are calling their favourite book of the year!LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORDLWIDEA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARIRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKA warm, funny gem of a novel LAURA HACKETT, THE TIMESMasterful . . . I was delighted and movedNEW YORK TIMES I cant praise it enough. Its an absolute triumphCLARE CHAMBERSWhat a novel! Tender, dry, sharp...devastating, but still feel good. PANDORA SYKES TremendousFREDRIK BACKMANShows us what a glorious thing growing older can beFLORENCE KNAPPThe years breakout novel no one saw comingWALL STREET JOURNALEvery morning, 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, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.Because at seventythree, Sybil has used her correspondence witty and wise 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 in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life.Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these years and find forgiveness within herself...

Binding: Hardback;400 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 516 g; Dimensions: 224 x 146 x 27

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