Meet Me at the Museum

**As read on BBC Radio Four**

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

A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting againRACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Bensons Beetle
Full of grace and humanitySunday Times
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This 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 Womans Hour

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Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.JOHN BOYNE

Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbingDAILY EXPRESS

Beautiful and affectingNINA STIBBE

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