Anne Youngson

“Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor.” —Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 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?

A Novel

Meet Me at the Museum

Cassandra Tang

They would have been cogs, wheels, brackets, levers, pulleys, each making their society work according to their skills and position. Now we are like ball bearings, complete in ourselves and joining other ball bearings only to form shapes which suit our purpose.

I find the business of sending letters an awkward interruption of the conversation we are having – finding the envelope, the stamp, visiting the post box, waiting for days before I can be sure you have read what I have written, when I want my thoughts to reach you as they occur to me.

There is a difference, she said, between harvesting a naturally occurring abundance and creating an abundance in order to harvest it – which is, of course, farming.

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