Anne Youngson

Original title in Britain was "Narrowboat Summer" but because most North Americans wouldn't know what a narrowboat is, it was renamed for release in America. But this Canadian has a husband who is addicted to YouTube videos and watched the adventures of narrowboats on the canals of England for close to a year. It was, in fact, the connection to Narrowboats that drew me to the book.

Unfortunately, the fact that this vessel was a narrowboat played a very small part in the book. The rest was women finding that they are stronger than they thought, with a neat tied-up-in-a-bow ending. Not my thing. If it's yours, there are far worse places to read about it than on a pleasure craft on an English canal.… (meer)

audio fiction, epistolary (2 narrators; 6 hrs 30 min)
November 2023 bingo challenge; food on cover.

letters exchanged between a farmer's wife in Bury St. Edmonds (Suffolk, UK) and a widower working at the Silkeborg Museum (Denmark) which houses the Iron Age human sacrifice Tollund Man that she takes an interest in--they form a close friendship while discussing various archaeology/anthropology topics as well as their recent grief/losses and other reflections on their life experiences.

lovely letter writing, with the touch of romance that goes hand in hand with the old-fashioned, handwritten correspondence.… (meer)