Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.
How far are they willing to go to write a new story for themselves?.
But then Tina\'s letters stop coming, and Anders is thrown into despair.
As they open up to one another about their lives, an unexpected friendship blooms.
And from their vastly different worlds, they find they have more in common than they could have imagined.
Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney\'s famous poem, they begin writing letters to one another.
Both believe their love stories are over.
On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn\'t remember choosing.
In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future.
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award From 70-year-old debut author Anne Youngson, a novel about a farmer\'s wife and a Museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as the charmer of the summer.
From 70-year-old debut author Youngson comes a novel about a farmer\'s wife and a Museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as the charmer of the summer.
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award