# 'The Correspondent' Author Virginia Evans On Her Breakout Year

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Podcast: [The Book Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412)
Published: 2026-01-09T17:27:56+00:00
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## Resource

Virginia Evans’s debut novel, “The Correspondent,” was published last April and became one of the publishing industry’s heartwarming champions of 2025. For Evans, who had written and failed to sell seven previous novels, the book’s popularity has felt magical, as she explains to host Gilbert Cruz on this week’s podcast.

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