Meet Me at the Museum

**As read on BBC Radio Four**<BR><BR>Uplifting, joyous, hopeful - a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize<BR><BR>'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<BR>'Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times<BR>________________________<BR><BR>This story begins with a letter<BR>From a housewife<BR>to the gentle curator<BR>Of an extraordinary museum<BR>Where lies peacefully<BR>An ancient exhibit<BR>That holds the key<BR>To Everything<BR>We are.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>*******************************<BR>'Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE<BR><BR>'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' DAILY EXPRESS<BR><BR>'Beautiful and affecting' NINA STIBBE<BR><BR>What readers are saying:<BR>'I loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have read'*****<BR>'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'*****<BR>'I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes'*****