Meet Me at the Museum

Meet Me at the MuseumMeet Me at the Museum
by Anne Youngson
Rating: ★★★★½
isbn: 9780857525529
Publication Date: December 26, 2019
Pages: 207
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Transworld

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.


Another winner from LT!  I loved this book and I’m going to buy a copy to have on my shelves.

I really enjoy epistolary novels, and this one tugged at me harder than most because one of my closest friends lives in Denmark and he and I have been corresponding for years, so the parallel pushed it up that extra half star.

If you don’t have a friend in Denmark you correspond with, it’s still a good book.  I’m not sure how to describe it really, except to say it feels like a very realistic correspondence between two people who have never met, yet have become close.  There’s a hesitation, a caution, in the sharing of opinions that rings true and the storylines that slowly and subtly unfold are the storylines that unfold everyday, everywhere.

There’s no happy ending, but there’s no unhappy ending either.  It ends with hope.  A genuinely lovely story.

2 thoughts on “Meet Me at the Museum”

    1. I found it at my library, which almost never has the books I’m looking for, so you’ll probably have no problem sourcing it. If you find it, I hope you enjoy it. 🙂

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