Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times'A beautiful and affecting novel of late love, by an extraordinary new writer' NINA STIBBE ************************************************When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn't expect a reply.When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, neither does he.They're both searching for something - they just don't know it yet.Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. Tina is trapped in a marriage she doesn't remember choosing.Slowly their correspondence blossoms as they bare their souls to each other with stories of joy, anguish and discovery. But then Tina's letters suddenly cease, and Anders is thrown into despair.Can their unexpected friendship survive?A deep and luminous novel of self-discovery and second chances, MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM is a heartbreaking celebration of love, life and the surprises it throws at us. In a story that is at once urgent and tender, Anne Youngson polishes the everyday until it gleams. *****************************************'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' Daily Express WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'I loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have read''I just loved this book and read it in one sitting. There were times when I felt like underlining the sentences that resonated with me''I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes'The Observer Promising first-time British novelists 2018: 'A novel about self-discovery and second chances

Autorentext
ANNE YOUNGSON is the author of the Costa First Book Award-shortlisted Meet Me at the Museum; BBC Radio Book Club pick, Three Women and a Boat and the story collection, The Six Who Came to Dinner. Anne Youngson's shrewd, warm-hearted and observational prose has been widely praised. Her new novel, A Complicated Matter explores the human heart through the coming-of-age of a young English refugee during the blitz. Anne's work is published around the world. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and has three grandchildren.

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ANNE YOUNGSON worked for many years in senior management in the car industry before embarking on a creative career as a writer. She has supported many charities in governance roles, including Chair of the Writers in Prison Network, which provided residencies in prisons for writers. She lives in Oxfordshire and is married with two children and three grandchildren to date. MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Costa Best First Novel Award and is now published around the world

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**As read on BBC Radio Four

U****plifting, joyous, hopeful - a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize**

'A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' RACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Benson's Beetle
'Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times
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This story begins with a letter
From a housewife
to the gentle curator
Of an extraordinary museum
Where lies peacefully
An ancient exhibit
That holds the key
To Everything
We are.

Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards each other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge.

This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

'Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE

'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' DAILY EXPRESS

'Beautiful and affecting' NINA STIBBE

What readers are saying:
'I loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have read'*****
'I just loved this book and read it in one sitting. There were times when I felt like underlining the sentences that resonated with me'*****
'I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes'*****