The Correspondent follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old retired lawyer in Annapolis, who is navigating the later years of her life. The novel is structured entirely in letters, a winning formula that offers unique insight into the protagonist. Grappling with her dwindling eyesight and fraught family relations, Sybil is still profoundly grieving the death of her son when he was just 10 years old.Prickly and capricious, she prefers to keep her nearest and dearest at arm’s length. But her empathy and humour shine through in correspondence to both strangers and loved ones, from an ancestry DNA customer service employee to...
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