⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely one of the best books I read in 2025. In The Correspondent, Virginia Evans introduces Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old retired law clerk whose life is stitched together through letters. Each morning at half past ten, she writes—to family, to old colleagues, to authors she admires like Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry—and to one person from her past whose letter she has never quite managed to send. Through these exchanges, we see a woman who prefers the safety of the written word to the unpredictability of conversation. Sybil assumes her orderly world will continue as it always has. She has been many things—mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, respected legal mind—and she wears those roles with […]