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Published 12:46 12 Jan 2026 GMT
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There's one book everyone is talking about at the moment, and that's The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
Readers have been raving about the book, with many claiming it is one of the best they've read in years. During the gloomy month of January, finding books that make us feel brighter and lighter is key, and The Correspondent is the perfect antidote for the January blues.
Critics have described the book as "a delight" and "an absolute triumph," so it has soared to the top of our reading list.
It is currently on sale, and you can get your hands on the Kindle version for less than the price of a coffee.
Buy it here for €1.14.
Buy it here for €1.14.
Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence – witty and wise – to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arm’s length... Until letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life.
Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these years - and find forgiveness within herself to move on.
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