Five-star review for The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Lenni, who’s seventeen, and Margo, who’s eighty-three, meet in an arts and crafts class for seventy- and eighty-year-olds at a chronic disease hospital in Glasgow. Both are dying but they develop a friendship and share stories of their lives with their pictures. Lenni decides that, since their combined age is 100, they should create 100 paintings depicting their lives. Many others in the hospital support them, including the art teacher, others in the class, a friendly nurse, a helpful porter and probably most of all, Father Arthur, the hospital chaplain who is soon to retire. This lovely story of an age-bridging friendship that changes their attitudes toward dying. At Margo’s age, I also wonder why I remember certain events and people in my life more than others.
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