Costa Book Awards Best First Novel (nominee)
**As read on BBC Radio Four**
Uplifting, 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
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'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'*****
Genre: Literary Fiction
Uplifting, 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
________________________
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'*****
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." - Annie Barrows
"Tender, wise, and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish." - John Boyne
"A wise and tender novel. Proof that the richest fruits come on the edge of autumn." - Sarah Dunant
"Exquisite. Its characters somehow resist following their story and reverse themselves into a new one. A beautiful, lasting read." - James Hannah
"A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again." - Rachel Joyce
"Readers are sure to love this wise and witty debut that celebrates the art of letter writing and the kindness of strangers." - Phaedra Patrick
"Intriguing and compelling, Meet Me at the Museum invites you into the meeting place between two people, imparting wisdom, thought, and endless charm." - Jennifer Ryan
"A beautiful, affecting novel of late love." - Nina Stibbe
"Precise, clear, funny, poignant, and truthful. This is a work of art, dear readers. Revel in its beauty." - Adriana Trigiani
"Tender, wise, and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish." - John Boyne
"A wise and tender novel. Proof that the richest fruits come on the edge of autumn." - Sarah Dunant
"Exquisite. Its characters somehow resist following their story and reverse themselves into a new one. A beautiful, lasting read." - James Hannah
"A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again." - Rachel Joyce
"Readers are sure to love this wise and witty debut that celebrates the art of letter writing and the kindness of strangers." - Phaedra Patrick
"Intriguing and compelling, Meet Me at the Museum invites you into the meeting place between two people, imparting wisdom, thought, and endless charm." - Jennifer Ryan
"A beautiful, affecting novel of late love." - Nina Stibbe
"Precise, clear, funny, poignant, and truthful. This is a work of art, dear readers. Revel in its beauty." - Adriana Trigiani
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