Anne Youngson
Meet Me at the Museum: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018
Meet Me at the Museum: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018
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Meet Me at the Museum is a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize. It is a moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again. It tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds, and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour. Readers are calling it tender, wise, and moving, and say it is a novel to cherish.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 26 December 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Uplifting, joyous, and hopeful, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel about late love and second chances. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, it is 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, describes it as full of grace and humanity. The 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. 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.
Weight: 170g
Dimension: 127 x 196 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784163464
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