The Correspondent

WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKA warm, funny gem of a novelLAURA 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 JOURNALSybil 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 Sybils 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 youd never dare to send.