​Virginia Evans is from the East Coast of the United States. She attended James Madison University for her bachelor’s in English Literature. ​After starting a family, she went back to school for her master’s of philosophy in Creative Writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied under tutors including Claire Keegan and Kevin Power. ​She now lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband, Mark, her two children, and her Red Labrador, Brigid.

The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send. ​Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters... ​To her children. Her favourite authors. Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor. Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club. ​All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. ​To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself.