Virginia Evans
speaker
347 appearances
9 recordings
8 series
first heard Nov 2022
last heard 25 Jun
Virginia Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Correspondent is a book about a woman.
And when you start the book, she's in her early 70s.
And the book is really a portrait of her life that you weave together through letters that she sends and receives.
The whole book is told through these letters or emails that she is writing or receiving from her corresponding partners or from strangers or famous people or different people that she interacts with.
You know, you begin at this moment in her life that she describes as the winter of her life.
But through the book, you sort of get the backstory.
And then you are also living through this era of her life, which you think will be winding down.
Like her life will be winding down, but it's actually not really winding down at all.
It's sort of opening up.
And so I think at the end of the book, what you have is a portrait of her whole life sort of beginning to end, but told in a sort of putting a puzzle together kind of way, I think is how I would describe it.
You know, it's funny how many people ask me this question, sort of how did you get into the mind of a woman in her 70s and 80s?
And so I've had a chance to give it a lot of thought.
And I think when I was writing the book,
Okay, I'll say Elizabeth Strout, one time I heard this interview where she said that the voice of Olive Kitteridge arrived.
I think she said she was like loading the dishwasher or unloading the dishwasher and sort of this voice of Olive Kitteridge arrived.
And I remember hearing her saying that and thinking that's how I felt about Sybil.
Like I kind of felt like she just arrived and was here with me sort of over my shoulder.
Her voice, which is pretty unique, her sort of personality, her way of interacting with people.
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