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70-year-old grandmum’s debut novel shortlisted for Costa Book Award 2018

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70-year-old grandmum, Anne Youngson’s debut novel is shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2018.

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Titled as ‘Meet Me At The Museum’, is published by Penguin. It is a ‘story of late love and second chances’ and has been shortlisted in the Costa Book Awards’ first novel category.

Anne Youngson is a retired executive, who has worked for companies like Land Rover. Ms Youngson said she was aware that she was busting myths about what a debut novelist should look like.

While talking about it, the Oxford based Youngson said that there is a myth that one cannot get published unless he/she is gorgeous and 25.

She added, “I’ve had a very fortunate life. I also explode the myth that you have to write out of misery, or that you need to have a terrible relationship with your parents, or a major tragedy.”

Anne Youngson is a mother-of-two. She said writing had always been her hobby, but it was fear of disappointment that had kept her from pursuing opportunities to publish her work.

Very interestingly, Ms Youngson, who writes long-hand before typing up notes, is studying for a

Anne Youngson
Anne Youngson is a retired executive and a mother of two. She is currently persuading her PhD in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.

It was her tutor at the Oxford Brookes University, who persuaded her that her prose was good enough to be published.

The story of Meet Me At The Museum revolves around a chance encounter between two strangers – and the complex, unexpected ways in which their lives soon intertwine.

The 2018 Costa Book Award shortlisted 20 authors and across five categories – novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children’s book.

The other nominees in the category of the debut novel are; Natalie Hart for Pieces Of Me, Elisa Lodato for An Unremarkable Body and Stuart Turton for The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle. The winners will be announced in January.

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