Meet Sybil
The full name of the woman whose letters tell the story.
Who is Sybil Van Antwerp?
Sybil’s brother, whom she declines to visit in France.
Who is Felix?
The story is told through these two forms of written communication.
What are letters and emails?
After reading news of this former colleague’s death, Sybil begins to receive threatening letters.
Who is the judge she worked for?
The author of The Correspondent.
Who is Virginia Evans?
Sybil spent her career as chief clerk to this kind of person.
Who is a judge?
Sybil’s daughter, who lives in Australia.
Who is Fiona?
This celebrated author writes back to Sybil and shares the experience of having lost a child.
Who is Joan Didion?
The threatening letters come from an aggrieved person with this connection to Sybil’s old workplace.
Who is a former defendant?
The novel first appeared in this year.
What is 2025?
This U.S. state is home to Sybil.
What is Maryland?
The name of Sybil’s son who died as a child.
Who is Gilbert?
Sybil invites this novelist to use her Maryland home as a writing retreat.
Who is Ann Patchett?
Sybil’s son Gilbert was this age when he died.
What is eight?
The Correspondent is this kind of first book for Virginia Evans.
What is a debut novel?
This worsening sense threatens Sybil’s ability to read and write letters.
What is her eyesight?
This longtime close relation has a conflict with Sybil over Sybil’s daughter.
Who is Rosalie?
Sybil repeatedly writes pages to one person but does not do this with them.
What is mail or send them?
These two men form the novel’s late-life love triangle with Sybil.
Who are Theodore and Mick?
The opening correspondence begins in this year.
What is 2012?
Before learning more about her ancestry, Sybil already knew this about her own childhood.
What is that she was adopted?
Sybil’s older son gives her one of these for Christmas, stirring questions about her ancestry.
What is a DNA test?
This western novelist is among the literary figures Sybil writes to.
Who is Larry McMurtry?
The truth Sybil eventually reveals about this event changes how readers understand her.
What is Gilbert’s death?
Most mornings Sybil sits down to write at roughly this time.
What is half past ten (10:30 a.m.)?