Meet Me at the Museum (Hardcover)

from rglossne

This charming epistolary novel tells the story of Tina Hopgood, a farmer's wife in England, and Anders Larsen, a recently widowed museum curator in Denmark. Tina writes to his museum of her curiosity about and desire to see the Tollund Man, a naturally mummified body dug out of a bog in Denmark. ...

from carolfoisset

Listened to this on a road trip - it was totally engrossing!

from bookworm12

I'm a sucker for epistolary novels and this is a sweet one. An English farmer's wife, Tina, and a museum employee in Denmark, Anders, become pen pals in a roundabout fashion. Tina has always wanted to visit the museum to see the Tollund Man. It's a quiet story, filled with simple moments they sha...

from bell7

When a farmer's wife with grown children writes an old professor about the Tollund Man, she gets an answer back from a worker at the Danish museum. Tina and Anders, both in unexpected places later in life, begin a correspondence that bring each of them solace and joy throughout the course of seve...

from ErickaS

This is just what I wanted. I love epistolary novels. A story in letters creates a novel that is immediately intimate. Meet Me at the Museum is well-crafted and heartfelt without being maudlin or sentimental. Tina Hopgood, farm wife in East Anglia, writes to Dr. Glob in Denmark, a professor who d...