{"title":"Books by Anne Youngson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784163464","title":"Meet Me at the Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**As read on BBC Radio Four**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eU\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eplifting, 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' \u003cb\u003eRACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Benson's Beetle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Full of grace and humanity' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis story begins with a letter\u003cbr\u003eFrom a housewife\u003cbr\u003eto the gentle curator\u003cbr\u003eOf an extraordinary museum\u003cbr\u003eWhere lies peacefully\u003cbr\u003eAn ancient exhibit\u003cbr\u003eThat holds the key\u003cbr\u003eTo Everything\u003cbr\u003eWe are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeet Me at the Museum\u003c\/i\u003e tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. 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It was so different from anything else I have read'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. 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