Anne Youngson Meet Me at the Museum : Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel

As read on BBC Radio FourUplifting, joyous, hopeful a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial PrizeA moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again RACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Bensons BeetleFull of grace and humanity Sunday TimesThis story begins with a letterFrom a housewifeto the gentle curatorOf an extraordinary museumWhere lies peacefullyAn ancient exhibitThat holds the keyTo EverythingWe 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 seventythree yearold Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Womans HourTender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish. JOHN BOYNEInsightful, emotionally acute and absorbing DAILY EXPRESSBeautiful and affecting NINA STIBBEWhat readers are sayingI loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have readI just loved this book and read it in one sitting. There were times when I felt like underlining the sentences that resonated with meI read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes | Anne Youngson Meet Me at the Museum : Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel