This book will break your heart, then it will put it back together with a funny line or heart-warming incident. Then, you’ll turn a page and it will break your heart all over again. But that’s what makes it incredible. The emotional range it invokes in the reader through the pages is just incredible. This book will speak volumes whether you’re in the strongest place or the lowest place in your life. There are moments within it, for everyone.
The magic of the hospital setting was clever. There were the frustrating elements of our current hospital system, as I’m sure many countries can relate to, but there was also the magic of the characters. The combined sense of being in the same boat, yet wildly different all at the same time. The idea of being a little bit broken, but united in this. I LOVED those characters. Every single one of them.
What I did know at the end of this book, is that it wasn’t enough. One hundred years was not enough to read about. I needed to hear more, to learn more about who they were. I could have read pages and pages about them for years and years more. I never wanted the stories to end.
About the Book
Life is short.
No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni. But as she is about to learn, it’s not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with.
Dodging doctor’s orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years.
To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person who is everything.
As their friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.
About The Author
Marianne Cronin was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire, England. She studied English at Lancaster University before earning a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. She now spends most of her time writing, with her newly-adopted rescue cat sleeping under her desk.
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