A Complicated Matter: A historical novel of love, belonging and finding your place in the world by the...

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Anne Youngson

A Complicated Matter

A historical novel of love, belonging and finding your place in the world by the Costa Book...

Anne Youngson

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Doubleday
18 July 2023

Astonishing, wry, observational tale of a young refugee in the London blitz finding home and love in a strange new land by the acclaimed author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM

Set against the Blitz in London, a young woman's extraordinary journey of self-discovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.

A March Best Book in Red

'NOTE PERFECT' East Riding Magazine 'AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER' Nina Stibbe

I used to believe the world had been created for me; every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge.

1939, London- From McPhail's Passage to Kensington's Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being 'flagrantly foreign' to the locals, she becomes an efficient go-between for the upper-class ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.

It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plain-speaking and sightless Major Inchbold that Rose's dizzying journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever, as she drinks tea at the vicarage and stands up for the lower orders. But Rose's greatest dilemma is yet to come, as she must decide where her home - and her heart - really lies.

In Anne Youngson's wry and sublimely understated prose, this unique and beautiful story of love, class and belonging is also a profound and intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.
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'Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE 'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' DAILY EXPRESS 'Beautiful and affecting' NINA STIBBE

Readers love Anne Youngson's novels- 'I was utterly gripped and felt bereft when I'd finished it'
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By: Anne Youngson
Imprint: Doubleday
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9780857528230
ISBN 10: 0857528238
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 18 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

ANNE YOUNGSON lives in Oxfordshire and is married with two children and two grandchildren to date. MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Costa Best First Novel Award and won the inaugural Paul Torday prize for debut fiction by writers over sixty. Her exquisite new novel is also about the joy of discovering new experiences and friendships. Her work is published around the world.

Reviews for A Complicated Matter: A historical novel of love, belonging and finding your place in the world by the Costa Book Award shortlisted author

Note-perfect. Like a forgotten classic republished by Persephone Books or Virago * East Riding magazine * A touching story full of love and humanity * YOURS magazine *