Meet Me at the Museum: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018 - Hardcover

Youngson, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857525514 ISBN 13: 9780857525512

Publisher: Doubleday, 2018

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

‘A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again’ RACHEL JOYCE

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Sometimes it takes a stranger to really know who you are


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, nor 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 story of late love and second chances - an enduring novel of ideas about life, love and the surprises it throws at us.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857525514
• ISBN 13: 9780857525512
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224