Audiobook Review - The Correspondent

Title: The Correspondent 

Author: Virginia Evans

Publisher: Crown

Genre: Epistolary Literary Fiction

{PREORDER ALERT!  Have you heard about the brilliant and beautiful debut novel—The Correspondent—by Virginia Evans that comes out 4/29?  This is one you don’t want to miss!  Thank you @prhaudio for the #gifted audiobook.  This is a full cast narration including one of my favorites—Jane Oppenheimer.}

❓Do you write letters?  This book will certainly make you want to purchase the most beautiful stationery and do just that!

🫶 Oh, Sybil!  I don’t think there will ever be a character that captured my heart quite like Sybil Van Antwerp.  And certainly one I will never forget!

☕️ Most mornings Sybil sits down with a cup of tea and writes letters.  It’s not just the corresponding, it’s the ritual of it.  She writes to her brother, best friend, neighbors, universities, authors, causes important to her . . . Then there is the one person she writes too, but can never actually send the letters.  And if only she could because as a women in her 70s and facing the beginnings of a health crisis she desperately needs forgiveness.  Forgiving yourself is one of the hardest things to do.

•The power of forgiveness 

•The power of connections

•The power of reflections

•The power of written words

🥹 I’m a sucker for epistolary told stories and septuagenarian & octogenarian characters.  Books that are quiet, thoughtful, and just so, so lovely.  This book will move you.  It will change you.  The ending!  Have your tissues ready!