Let's Meet at the Museum

When the curator of the Danish museum, Anders Larsen, answers a question about ancient artifacts, he does not expect a continuation of correspondence. When the struggling farmer, Tina Hopgood, from the depths of England first wrote to the Silkeborg Museum,... she also had no hopes... Professor Larsen, a polite man of facts, has lost not only his wife but also his hopes and dreams for the future. He does not know that Mrs. Hopgood’s question about the world-famous antiquity in his museum is about to change the course of his life. Separated by hundreds of kilometers, an adult man and woman unexpectedly enter into correspondence, discovering shared passions and attachments: to history and nature; to useless items left by loved ones; to the ancient and modern world, to what has been lost in time, what has been gained, and what has remained unchanged. Through intimate stories of joys, sufferings, and discoveries, they reveal their souls to each other. But when letters from Tina suddenly stop arriving, Anders falls into despair. Can this unlikely friendship survive? "Let's Meet at the Museum" is the debut epistolary novel by Ann Youngson about a farmer's wife and a museum curator seeking a chance to start life anew. A subtle and deep book that opened the way for a 70-year-old British woman into Great Literature.