The Correspondent

Sybil Van Antwerp is stubborn, cantankerous and opinionated, and she believes absolutely in the power of the written word. We come to know her entirely through the letters she writes to family and friends, so her life emerges from what she chooses to say, and to whom.

As time runs short, Sybil finds there are still a few postscripts to add. She needs to mend a difficult relationship with her children, she is offered a final chance at romance, and an old legal case has returned to trouble her conscience. Beneath all of it lies a loss she has held close for thirty years. Told with candour and warmth, this novel in letters is a late-life reckoning centred on one unforgettable heroine.