With the exception of 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, I don't really enjoy novels based on the exchange of letters and this book didn't get to join my very short list of exceptions. The problem I had with this particular book was that I found the whole premise hard to believe. Tina is a lonely farmer's wife whose best friend has recently died, and she regrets the fact that they never managed to visit the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark. She and her friend Bella had often spoken of taking a trip to see the Tollund Man, whose Iron Age remains were found remarkably preserved in a peat bog in 1950. People often dream of visiting the Trevi Fountain or the spring cherry blossom in Japan, but it's not very often I hear of someone spending half a lifetime dreaming of a visit to a long dead body. Tollund Man was found with a rope around his neck so the poor man was the victim of murder and now his remains lie in the museum for all to see. People gawping at the a...