Virginia Evans Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Virginia Evans is a successful published American author.

Hailing from the United States’ east coast, Virginia studied at James Madison University while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She started her family but then decided that it was time to go back to school once more. She would pursue her master’s of philosophy in creative writing in Dublin, Ireland at their Trinity College. She was able to study under many great people there, including Claire Keegan, Harry Clifton, Eoin McNamee, Carlo Gébler, and Kevin Power.

Virginia is now married. She resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. There she resides with her husband Mark and the rest of their family, which includes their children (Jack and Mae) and their red labrador (Brigid).

Within the Walled City is a 2015 book by Virginia Evans. If you have been looking for a great read that you can take with you anywhere, whether you are commuting on your way to work and want something to entertain you on the subway or just have some spare time at home that you’d like to spend on a good story, this is a fantastic selection.

Lily Dunn passed away 17 years ago. The small family that she ended up leaving behind has put their memory out of their minds and buried it, the same thing that they have done for their pain. But her daughter Jillian is still alive, and still continuing to live her life at 26 years old.

When Jillian takes off to spend a semester in Siena, Italy so that she can finish her Master’s in Art History, she ends up coming across a treasure that she never saw coming. It’s a journal, hand written in by none other than Lily herself. It was from around the time that she also was living in Siena.

The months that Jillian spends in Siena are interesting. They are marked by incredible scenery, odd people, a lot of exquisite art, and above all the painful and exciting discovery of a mother that she never knew– as well as a lot of secrets that once learned cannot be forgotten about.

It turns out that the memories of an artist and the shadows of the past will end up either crushing her or helping her come alive in the walled city. Which of these two will happen? Read this book from Virginia Evans to find out.

The Correspondent is a 2025 book by Virginia Evans. It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Readers’ Favorite Fiction and Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel. It was also nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in the category of Readers’ Favorite Audiobook.

Sybil Van Antwerp is the main character in this story. Throughout the course of her life, she has always used letters to try and not only make more sense of the world but also of her own place in it. Around most mornings, usually half past ten, Sybil has the same routine that she follows.

She sits down and writes letters out the world. She writes letters to her brother, her best friend, and even to the president of the university because they will not let her audit a class that she really wants to take. Sybil also writes to Joan Didion as well as Larry McMurtry so that she can inform them about what she thinks of their latest books. She writes to one person more frequently than all the rest, but never puts the letter into the mail so that they receive it.

Sybil has an expectation that her world will keep on going the way that it always has in the past. She has been a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a divorcee, a lawyer, and more. She has had a very full life and loved living every minute of it. When letters coming from someone in her past makes her look at one of the most painful periods of her life, she starts to realize that the same letter that she has been writing over all these years must be read.

She also realizes that she cannot move forward in life until she finds it within her heart to offer up forgiveness. The Correspondent is full of the type of wisdom and knowledge that can come from a life that was fully lived. It’s about finding solace in connection with people in literature that we might not have the chance to ever meet in person.

It also revolves around the hubris of youth as well as the wisdom that can come along with old age. This book focuses as well on the various acts of kindness and mistakes that can go on throughout a lifetime. While the characters letters throughout her life might be a small thing, it also makes Sybil Van Antwerp a character that readers will not soon forget. Grab a copy of this book to follow along and see how it concludes!