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  • Published: 5 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529176247
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot




Unforgettable, life-enhancing and uplifting, this unique story of a friendship between an older woman and a teenager received incredible praise from readers, press and retailers alike.

'The most uplifting book of the year' INDEPENDENT

'This is something special: moving, joyful and life-affirming' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Book of the Month
An extraordinary friendship. A lifetime of stories. Their last one begins here.

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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, and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love.

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'Full of wisdom and kindness. It is just the kind of book I adore' JOANNA CANNON

'Emotional, involving, witty and sad. Everyone is going to love Lenni and Margot' JILL MANSELL

'Lenni and Margot are two of the most wonderful, warm, witty and wise heroines I've ever met. Beautiful and glorious' CLARE POOLEY, author of The Authenticity Project
'Charged with light and colour. Gloriously original and full of wisdom, humour, and hope. It made me think and care and laugh and cry. One of my all-time favourite books' HAZEL PRIOR, author of Away with the Penguins

  • Published: 5 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529176247
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Marianne Cronin

Marianne Cronin was born in 1990 and grew up in Warwickshire. She studied English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, before going on to specialise in applied linguistics, earning her MA and PhD from the University of Birmingham. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is her debut novel

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