Meet Me at the Museum

By Anne Youngson

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award

From 70-year-old debut author Anne Youngson, a novel about a farmer's wife and a museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as "the charmer of the summer."

In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn't remember choosing. Both believe their love stories are over.

Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney's famous poem, they begin writing letters to one another. And from their vastly different worlds, they find they have more in common than they could have imagined. As they open up to one another about their lives, an unexpected friendship blooms. But then Tina's letters stop coming, and Anders is thrown into despair. How far are they willing to go to write a new story for themselves?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250295173
• ISBN13: 9781250295170
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

A quiet joy!

Meet Me At The Museum is an exquisite capturing of a journey between two people discovering an unexpected new life through a correspondence of letters. It is a wonderful read. However, it is even more magical as an audiobook! Charming, warm, insightful and beautifully written. A quiet joy! Thank you Anne Youngson!