
The Radio 2 Book Club
The Radio 2 Book Club
'The Correspondent' by Virginia Evans
April 29, 2025
16 minutes
Available for over a year
Our Book Club pick this week is 'The Correspondent' by Virginia Evans.
She s Sara down the line from the USofA to tell us all about the inspiration behind this novel, why she loves writing letters and how she once lost a draft of an entire book on her laptop!
She also gives us some great book recommendations too!
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Here's the blurb for The Correspondent:
In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word.
But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a devastating loss that she has spent the last thirty years holding close to her chest.