This is one of those rare finds: something you can recommend to (almost) everyone. Three generations in my family have read and given highest marks.

Letter by note by email the life of Sybil Van Atwerp unfolds with the past and the present, the living and the dead, the near and the far, the famous and the pedestrian mingling to create a stunning work of prose. Sometimes its the quiet works that speak loudly.

Epistolary novels never cease to amaze and delight me. (84 Charing Cross Road and Love, Nina anyone?) Witty, revelatory, endearing. FIVE STARS.