The Correspondent
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By Virginia Evans
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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.
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This book was a fantastic read. Sybil was a very interesting character who liked to read lots of different books and she was very good at expressing herself through letters and e-mails. She had written to lots of different people like her ex-husband, son, daughter, her best friend Rosalie. She also was involved in many activities like gardening club, reading, reviewing literature courses and she had a few interesting relationships with her neighbour. She was adopted and she had found out through an organisation she had written to. I did like the letters she had written to Bassem who worked at the DNA agency.
Very much enjoyed her letters to him. She was very good at writing to people and even had written a few apologetic letters to a former defendant who was sent down during her time working for a law firm. I did thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I liked the style it was written. It was good to read letters and e-mails that were written it told a very unique story of Sybil's life. The art of writing letters is dying due to the rise in technology so reading this book was a wonderful change of pace.
It has inspired me to write letters again and would recommend this book to those who wish to learn to write good letters and e-mails to people
