The author of one of the publishing world’s breakout hits of 2025 nearly gave up on writing. It took two decades of dedication, but Evans finally has a New York Times bestseller and a book Bel Canto author Ann Patchett calls a unicorn.
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View this post on InstagramIn addition, The Correspondent is a nominee for Best Debut Novel in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Other buzzy books of 2025 that are also Goodreads Choice Awards nominees include Reese Witherspoon’s “favorite book of the year” Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall and Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick The Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar.
She tells the WSJ, “My father-in-law was sick, COVID was underway and we were in a bad place,” Evans told WSJ. “I started The Correspondent as an exercise, never planning to show it to anyone.”
Despite not getting picked up by any of the major book clubs, The Correspondent became the word-of-mouth book of the year. Amazon editor Abby Abell writes of the book, “The Correspondent is a novel you read and then immediately buy for one, or five, of your friends. Told over the course of many years via correspondences between retired lawyer Sybil Van Antwerp and the various people she writes to, it's a story about the bonds we form and heal through words. This book is a gem, and a much-needed reminder of the beauty of humanity.”
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