Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

I appreciate the considered simplicity of the front cover design for The Correspondent. Jacket design is by Anna Kochman and the illustration is by Gemma Koomen. And yet, if one has committed oneself to the page, the tragedy I’ve just laid out will not apply. Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing to someone? page 46, Sybil Table of ContentsWhy The Correspondent?The BookCharactersThemesConcluding Thoughts Why The Correspondent? I first started…