Meet Me At The Museum (shortlisted For The Costa First Novel Award 2018)

By (author) Youngson Anne
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Now being read on BBC Radio Four
A beautiful novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018

''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 the 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''

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Exquisite. Its characters somehow resist following their story and reverse themselves into a new one. A beautiful lasting read.
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Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing
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A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again.
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‘Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.’
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Full of grace and humanity
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A thoughtful and gentle meditation on buried passions, regrets, love, grief and loneliness . . . Youngson’s debut offers hope for change in its tender exploration of what it means to have experienced a life well-lived.
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The loveliest short novel of late love you''ll ever read. Whenever I talk about it, I simply cry with joy
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Quietly intriguing, beautifully observed, full of powerful emotions
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I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone looking for a book that makes you think and wonder and quietly hope. Loved it.
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A quirky, wise and tender novel. Proof that the richest fruits come on the edge of autumn
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Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savour
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A beautiful, affecting novel of late love, by an extraordinary new writer
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Precise, clear, funny, poignant and truthful. This is a work of art, dear readers.
Revel in its beauty

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Intriguing and compelling, Meet Me at the Museum invites you into the meeting place between two people, imparting wisdom, thought, and endless charm.
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A correspondence that begins with a search for clarity becomes something much deeper and richer - both for the two main characters, and for the reader.
Anne Youngson peels away the layers that prevent us from living the lives w