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The Correspondent, which recently won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026, was a book I happened to be reading at the right time. The book is told entirely through letters, which is unusual and takes a bit of warming up to. The book follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a 73-year-old retired lawyer who spends every morning at her desk writing letters. She writes to her gay brother, her childhood friend Rosalie, her neighbour Theodore who falls in love with her, a young boy Harry, authors whose books she admires, university presidents who annoy her…. and even to ‘the one’ whose letters she’s well aware will never be posted or received.