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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

ISBN 
9780857527202
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R340.00
Published 
March 2021
About the book: 
Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. 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 extraordinary friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
 
Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness,  The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot  unwraps the extraordinary gift of life even when it is about to be taken away, and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love when we need them most.
 
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About the Author
Marianne Cronin  was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire. After gaining her PhD in applied linguistics, she worked in academia until becoming a writer. Her first novel, The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, published by Doubleday in 2021, was voted 'most uplifting book of 2021' by The Independent and shortlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. She lives in the Midlands with her family and her cat.

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