“I didn’t think I was going to publish this book,” Evans, 39, said during a January episode of “The Book Review Podcast” from The New York Times. “I had been writing books for a long time that had not been successful, and I had a book out for sale to editors, and it was not selling. And so I wrote this book, what I was calling a palate cleanser. I was thinking, ‘I’m gonna write a book that’s just a book I wanna write.’”
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Evans’ agent ultimately insisted on reading the book, and The Correspondent was published as her debut in April 2025. The novel follows a retired lawyer in her 70s named Sybil Van Antwerp who reflects on her life through letter and email correspondences with her friends, family and famous authors over the years.
In her podcast interview, Evans credited author and Parnassus Books owner Ann Patchett’s support for The Correspondent’s breakthrough.
The Correspondent’s success became even more apparent to Evans once she met readers and booksellers on tour.
For Evans, the timing was right for The Correspondent to launch her career.
“I feel like I lucked out. Like, I got it all,” she explained. “I got to have my life and my family. And now at this moment, I get to have this other amazing dream come true.”
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