Book Review: ‘The One Hundred Years Of Lenni And Margot: A Novel’ By Marianne Cronin

by | May 13, 2021 | Books | 0 comments

This is one of the most heart-warming books you can read this year. It’s the debut novel from author Marianne Cronin and she will be a force in the future if she keeps writing great books like this one. Just a great story about the unlikely friendship of two people of different ages and eras, that are there for each other until the end of one of them.

Lenni Petterson, is 17 years old and has a terminal disease. She’s living her final days at the Glascow Princess Royal hospital. She lives a fantasy live in her dreams, befriends a priest at the chapel and questions things in her life and why she’s at this point. Then one day she meets Margot, 83 and also with a medical condition at the hospital. They meet in an art class and become fast friends. Margot soon tells stories about her life as does Lenni. Then Lenni comes up with a brillant plan, to paint these stories and do a total of 100 of them, their combined age. So we get to live their lifes via flashbacks and learn their stories and really connect with them. The friendship is real and the reader really gets to connect with these two characters and by the end you feel like friends with them as well. A great way to kick off the summer.

You can pick up The One Hundred Years Of Lenni And Margot in stores on Tuesday, June 1st from Harper Perennial.