I’ve been struggling to move on after finishing the utterly wonderful An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Canon but this has been drawing me in for some time. It was the cover initially but more and more I feel this is going to be another highly enjoyable read… and so in I go.

Synopsis

Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters..,

To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club.

All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns.

But there is one letter that she had never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself.

But the hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send.